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fire team ( four Marines ) on point and we were in column formation crossing the valley—all I could see up ahead was the back of the trailing member of the Fire team—about half way across the valley I noticed that one after the other —the Marines were stepping over a ‘log’—as I approached the ‘log’ —it moved! That got our attention—the platoon gathered around in a circle to watch the largest snake any of us had ever seen—it was indeed, as big around ‘as a log’! We don’t know how long it was—we never saw the head—but the snake moved across our path for what seemed like several minutes—until finally, the tail end of the thing passed.
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