How to survive snake bite

How To Survive Snake Bite As A Soldier

My first advice to you is that  If you're bitten, you need to forget all that stuff you've seen in the movies about sucking out the venom.

You'll just end up opening up more capillaries and spread the venom faster, not to mention the risk of getting venom in your mouth. 

Likewise, don't try to cut the venom out. The best advice I can give you is to wash the wound, keep the bite below the level of your heart, keep your heart rate low (easier said than done) and get as much fluid into your system as possible. Above all, get to the nearest medical corp member in you squad. In practice, this means that whenever you're in a snake-infested area, you should act like every good soldier should: be prepared and have a solid casevac plan. If you have a bad haemotoxic or neurotoxic snake bite, you need a fast route to a group of medical corp, and a dose of the right antivenom.

Remember this, though: antivenom is not the magic pill people think it is. Sure, it might save your life, but if it's a bad bite you're still in danger of losing a limb. And even when you do everything right, the consequences of a snake bite can be ugly,

My platoon Commander sergeant Musa Haruna a well skilled soldier, He was wearing proper jungle boots, but a fer- de-lance snake bit him through the eyelet of his boot. He did everything he was supposed to do, and got to medicak team within two hours (carried on my shoulder). The venom was about to  eat away my friend's muscle. But due to the first aid skills he had he eventually survived it.

It's a good reminder that, like everything in nature, snakes are to be taken extremely seriously and the wild can be a dangerous place. But therein lies the challenge as a soldier who would do any thus to defend this country.