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When I was in SF, there was a demonstration team at Ft. Bragg that had a small village set up in the woods. Visitors would walk through to see all the demonstrations. Along the way, they would see snake prepared for consumption and it was served to them. One of the other nicknames for the Green Berets, "snake eaters", developed from that.
Back then; also, there circulated an artist's drawing that depicted an Green Beret sitting on the ground, snarling, tying a dressing around his lower leg, with an opened "Snake Bite" kit on the ground next to him. Near him was a snake, coiled up, head raised, snarling, a dressing wrapped around its body, pulling taught a dressing tie held in its mouth, with a "Man Bite" kit on the ground next to it.
I don't think that drawing made it to the internet as I've never seen it there.
BTW, I did indeed catch and eat snakes during the survival portion of Special Forces training. Not something I'd buy at the grocery store.
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