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Tunnels in Vietnam during the war often held mini hospitals, storage facilities, and training

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Tunnel rats were selected to perform search and destroy missions in small places other soldiers couldn't access

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Hand to hand combat when facing Viet Cong soldiers in tunnels was most common due to the effects of gunfire on ears in such a small, crowded space

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Many tunnel rats faced the dangers of being flooded with water or poison gas in the small tunnels during their missions

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While typically being trained engineers, most tunnel rats were not formally trained and volunteered to be in their position

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Tunnel rats were typically combat engineers from America, Australia and New Zealand