Tunnel Rats Redux

A Vietnam veteran tunnel rat has some thoughts about the battle for Gaza

Nov 09, 2023

∙ Paid

Stephen “Shorty” Menendez has a piece of advice for an Israeli soldier in a unit faced with clearing out Hamas tunnels in Gaza: Don’t volunteer to go down there. You will never get over it.

Israeli soldier shows journalists a Hamas tunnel in Gaza. (Reddit photo)

Menendez, now 73, is very proud of his harrowing work crawling down guerrilla tunnels in Vietn…

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to SpyTalk to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.