Flood the Gaza Tunnels
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As I watched this, I thought about @Renauda's comment - how sea water is so corrosive and damaging to everything. It'll destroy the tunnels, to be sure, but also, I assume, the buildings above the tunnels.
Oh, wait...there aren't any buildings above the tunnels any more.
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I will be interesting to see how that goes.
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@jon-nyc said in Flood the Gaza Tunnels:
imagine being the soldier on point going in the tunnel first.
(slight derail)
In the early Bosch books, it's described how Harry Bosch was a "tunnel rat" in Vietnam. The trauma of that experience haunted him for years.
In the TV series, it's tunnels in the first Gulf War.
(back to your thread)
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Israel has assembled a system of large pumps it could use to flood Hamas’s vast network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip with seawater, a tactic that could destroy the tunnels and drive the fighters from their underground refuge but also threaten Gaza’s water supply, U.S. officials said.
The Israel Defense Forces finished assembling large seawater pumps roughly one mile north of the Al-Shati refugee camp around the middle of last month. Each of at least five pumps can draw water from the Mediterranean Sea and move thousands of cubic meters of water per hour into the tunnels, flooding them within weeks.
Israel first informed the U.S. of the option early last month, prompting a discussion weighing its feasibility and effect on the environment against the military value of disabling the tunnels, officials said.
U.S. officials said they didn’t know how close the Israeli government was to carrying out the plan. Israel hasn’t made a final decision to move ahead, nor has it ruled the plan out, officials said.
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@jon-nyc said in Flood the Gaza Tunnels:
imagine being the soldier on point going in the tunnel first.
(slight derail)
In the early Bosch books, it's described how Harry Bosch was a "tunnel rat" in Vietnam. The trauma of that experience haunted him for years.
In the TV series, it's tunnels in the first Gulf War.
(back to your thread)
@George-K said in Flood the Gaza Tunnels:
@jon-nyc said in Flood the Gaza Tunnels:
imagine being the soldier on point going in the tunnel first.
(slight derail)
In the early Bosch books, it's described how Harry Bosch was a "tunnel rat" in Vietnam. The trauma of that experience haunted him for years.
In the TV series, it's tunnels in the first Gulf War.
(back to your thread)
From the stuff I’ve read, there’s no comparison in terms of the trauma between the two. The tunnels in Gaza are basically hallways that 1-2 men can walk through, occasionally crouching, with clearance to carry their rifles.
The tunnel rats in Vietnam were the smallest guys in the platoons, and had to demonstrate high degrees of flexibility. They were stripped down to their skivvies, swabbed down in mud to make them slippery, and sliding headfirst into holes they could barely fit through with their hands and arms fully extended like a diver and carrying a Ka-Bar in their frigging teeth. Occasionally the hole would be large enough that they could carry a small pistol, but not often. The “tunnels” often were no only trapped with explosive tripwires or sharpened stakes covered in shit.
Never fuck with a Vietnam Tunnel Rat.
