Did the Two-Step Snake Really Kill? The Truth Behind 16 Legends Every Vietnam Grunt Believed

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  @harrypairatestys4230 · 3 weeks ago

  USN Danang 1971. I went to SERE in Coronado. One of our classroom subjects was about the snakes of Vietnam. A chief came introduced himself and told there are 100 different kinds of snakes in country. He told us 99 of them were poisonous and the other 1 will squeeze you to death. Don&apos;t f**k with the snakes as he dismissed the class. That stuck with me my whole tour. We were going on patrol one night and our lieutenant was there before we left. He &nbsp;told us the army would be spraying weed killer in our area. During our patrol we ran into the soldier spraying. One thing I noticed was he was wearing a gas mask. Weed killer?

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  @ThePyramidone · 3 weeks ago (edited)

  I was a Vietnam-era vet. &nbsp;The difference is that we served in a time of war but didn&apos;t, for one reason or another, never got assigned to Vietnam. &nbsp;We were sent to other areas - Alaska, Hawaii, South Korea, Iceland, Greenland, Japan, the Philippines, Germany, Britain, Italy- or served stateside. &nbsp;We heard all of those stories, repeated in basic training by drill sergeants who had been there, or from returnees from the war. We learned all the lingo too: dinky dao, chu-lai, freedom bird, slicky-boy, punji sticks, Puff, Hanoi Hannah, and the Hanoi Hilton, grid squares, contour lines, thumpers, big hogs, slicks, gunships, point, RTO, L-Tee, bug juice, c-rats, and claymores.

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  @Drucipher6996-y4h · 13 days ago

  My father was a Marine he did 2 tours in Vietnam and on one of those tours a guy in his platoon was attacked by a tiger and I believe my father who had no reason to lie about it

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  @TomRay-w1q · 2 weeks ago

  1st Cav LRP 1970, that rea]lly brought back memories, it is true you could smell the enemy and we did eat local food and especially the sauce that used. &nbsp;The snakes were real but didn&apos;t have too many encounters, just stayed alert. &nbsp;We did stay up most of one night when we set up under a monkey tree and they threw stuff at us all night. Just feel blessed to still be alive

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  @RichardReppert-b3q · 2 weeks ago

  Co. A 1st bat 2nd inf 1st inf div. Feb 1967 to Feb 1968.I remember the fu lizards. &nbsp;Had a friend of our squad bitten by a bamboo pit viper. &nbsp;He survived. &nbsp;Anyone remember the red ants in the trees and the leaches? &nbsp;We all came home changed.

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  @MarkDennis-u5t · 3 weeks ago

  Hotel Btry, 3/12 November 67, Dec 68. I knew most of the legends you reported, and the rumors. As i served in late 68, the rumor that spread around I Corps, dont get to comfortable. When you get to Da Nang (last stop before heading home, the freedom bird) we were going to simply trade in our jungle utilities for desert ones. Seems their was quite a bit of fighting going on in the middle east, so those of us who had finished our tour, we would be heading straight to Israel. It was convincing enough that a number of guys actually used up their phone time to call home and give them the bad news. The Rock Ape story, That one I am going with. I did a lot of outpost and listening post, and sometime in the night a rock would come tumbling in. Sure sounded like a grenade to us to ruin what ever sleep we thought we were going to get. Semper Fi, Mark Wayland, .

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  @fightmilk8613 · 2 weeks ago

  To all the vets commenting, thank you guys for your sacrifices.

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  @jameshaberer4644 · 2 weeks ago

  The two-step snake was a Krait, no bigger than the thickness of your little finger. &nbsp;It had short teeth that had to be grounded into soft skin like the webbing between the thumb &amp; other fingers. It was red, black, &amp; cream colored banded stripes (much like a coral snake). &nbsp;I saw a pappasan chase one in the klong &amp; he could catch them by hand &amp; put them into a cloth bag.

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  @Worldsbestgrandpab · 2 weeks ago

  My brother killed a gigantic tiger stalking him, on night ambush. Luckily they had a dog with them that alerted.

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  @8551-w5v · 2 weeks ago

  As a Machinegunner for 1/9 Bravo Co. &quot;The Walking Dead &quot; during Desert Storm I wrote the Bicycle Playing Card Company. I asked for Decks of Cards that were all Ace of Spades. They sent me 5 decks of Aces of Spades that say Operation Desert Storm. I still have several unopened decks.

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  @AlfredZamora-l9m · 3 weeks ago

  The crate scared the poop out of us a couple were killed on a operation. We heard about the apes never saw one, and tigers up in the mountains around quan tri

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