William Joseph Meadows (b. 21 July 1950; d. 19 May 1992) was a soldier in the United States Army who served as a "tunnel rat" with the First Infantry alongside Harry Bosch in the Vietnam War. Bosch stated that Meadows was the only man he ever knew that wasn't afraid about going down into the tunnels. He worked in the tunnels until 1970, when he was assigned to a military police unit attached to the American embassy in Saigon where his commanding officer was Lt. John Rourke. He became acquainted with Art Franklin and Gene Delgado who were also military police. He became a drug user at this time and was involved in smuggling heroin to the U.S. He stayed with the military police until he was discharged in 1973, at which point he remained as a civilian advisor attached to the embassy, and did