tomdinwv
May 31, 2013Explorer
Snake!!!
We went camping Monday thru Thursday at our favorite COE CG here in WV. (East Fork CG at East Lynn Lake) Quite an adventure. Tuesday evening, the wife got a couple of pieces of wood and threw on the f...
bigred1cav wrote:I worked with a very big 6'7" MP Master Sergeant who was from the Staunton VA area. He was a expert at throwing a hatchet at a target. When he was in basic training, they were clearing brush and one of the other trainees picked up a rattle snake and started at my friend. MY friend reared up that hatchet and was ready to throw it until the other guy turned away and threw that rattler the other direction. Jackie said he had every intention of throwing that hatchet at the guy with snake. And had he done it he would have surely killed the guy with the snake. That big old Virgina boy was deathly afraid of snakes. He ended up retiring from the army many years later. Jackie K. Lester, if you are out there anywhere, a big hi to ya!
Looks like dinner to any Army Ranger.