HiJinx wrote: I hear ya’ re: rattlesnakes. Grampa only had to show us one...
One summer, my NCO’s hung the snakes they killed from the eve of the barracks. There were six over five feet long. Two that touched the ground.
All my senior NCO’s carried personal firearms to kill snakes. Very much against regulations but I never made an issue of it.
It was a signal unit with big vans on the back of trucks. My active duty inspector cited my unit for safety violations where my men were sleeping on top of the vans. I showed him the snakes we’d killed. He rescinded the citation.
Oh yeah! A Safety Inspector with some common sense. Rare breed...