Bad year for snakes

Man am I glad the snakes around here just look scary!
I've had two interactions with rattlesnakes. Both at Ft. Sill OK. The 1st was at an M16 range. I took the cover off a fox hole and there it was. Coiled up and rattle going. I wanted to shot it. I got threatened with a Article 15 and backed away. Range control came and got it.
The 2nd time, I was driving a HEMMT on the hardball at Ft. Sill and it was sunning itself on the road. Needless to say, I didn't swerve to miss it.
I never saw any, but when I was in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, I got into the habit of shaking my boots out every morning. I was told little snakes called Asp's would crawl into boots. I was more worried about scorpion's.