GunnyGene
Hawkeye
For the VN vets. Don't know if any of y'all ever did this, but even if you didn't you had to respect the guts these men had.
Excerpt w/video:
Excerpt w/video:
http://www.guns.com/2018/05/19/taking-a-dive-into-the-dark-with-the-tunnel-rats-in-vietnam-video/
Creeping around an underground labyrinth filled with booby traps and hidden dangers armed only with a .45. You just defined a Tunnel Rat.
As covered in the above 1967 short film by the Army, soldiers deployed to Southeast Asia poke around a newly discovered tunnel complex in an effort to reap any intelligence that may have been left behind by the (hopefully) former Viet Cong occupants.
Equipped with an M1911A1 and a Fulton MX991/U anglehead flashlight that put out an impressive 5 lumens of moonglow, so-called Tunnel Rats squeezed down the narrow underground passages that could contain high-value targets including bunkers, headquarters and storage facilities located near, or in some cases even under, American and Allied installations.
But there were efforts to provide a more purpose-built handgun for the job.