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4. It's scary. One my fellow soldiers had a rattlesnake bite his leather boot 40 years ago

Thu Apr 23, 2026, 05:20 PM

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It wasn't able to break the leather of the boot, but he still freaked out and jumped up in his pup tent to run down the road.

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