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[QUOTE="longtime, post: 347010, member: 16513"] Snakes give me the willies too (though for some reason, smaller rattlers don't bug me as much as some other snakes [Cobra; water moccasin; tropical hanging snakes of any sort; water snakes]). During our training for naval aviation they made a point of us keeping our deepest fears to ourselves -- at the time they were concerned that the Russians had some folks in our services who were long-time plants. And if the bad guys ever found out what really got to you, they'd use it on you should you ever be a POW. Well I still don't know if I let the beans out or not about my feelings about snakes, or whether it was just dumb coincidence, but at one survival training, on about day five, when we're all worn down from hunger and sleep deprivation, an instructor strolls into our camp from out of nowhere, strides quickly to the center, and then, in one fluid motion wings a water moccosin onto my lap. Sucker was about 5 feet long -- 7 feet the way it stretched when he whipped it around by the tail and threw it at me. I about crapped my pants. Problem was, I couldn't do what I wanted, which was to jump up, scream like a baby girl, and run into the woods, never to be seen again. Because I didn't know if my secret was out yet. So, just in case it still [i]was[/i] secret, I certainly didn't want to give it away. So I just sat there, looked as tough / nonchalant as I could. I realized it was dead, but that gave me little comfort -- I still wanted to die at this point. Instead, I just looked at the instructor until he said "why don't you clean and cook that so we can have something to eat tonight?" I got up, on wobbly legs, put some water on the fire, took out my knife, and taught myself how to clean a snake. I've never let this out, but seeing as there's no chance in heck that I'll ever fly Hornets again, let me just now finally say: AAAAAIIIIIIIIIYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :scream: :scream: :scream: [/QUOTE]
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