Exterminate!

This is cooolbert:

Good training!!

Watching the PBS program "Nature" on TV last night.

Very interesting program dealing with the Burmese python and the danger this constrictor snake now poses to the natural landscape of Florida. Snakes, escaped or released by owners, now at infestation proportions, threatening the natural wildlife of the area in a way that has never been seen!!

An environmental system threatened by a beast that fears no other animal. A predator, the Burmese python growing at an amazing rate to prodigious size. Even able to overcome, kill, and devour the top-of-the-food-chain, the alligator!!

The Everglades, a national park of about one thousand [1,000] square miles, in particular, in danger of losing a goodly portion of an indigenous wildlife to a rapacious killer, a problem for which there now seems to be no reasonable solution.

[this one naturalist has stated that the problem posed by invasive species will be a greater danger than global warming and climate change!]

The eradication of the Burmese python to the greatest degree possible offers an excellent training opportunity for U.S. military special operations [ops] units?

Special ops units to include:

* Special Forces. ["Green Berets"]
* Rangers.
* Marine Recon.
* Navy SEAL.
* ANGLICO.
* Air Force Para rescue. [PJ]

Four man teams of special operations troops, entering the Everglades on "live" training missions, using "punt-style" boats, the elimination of the Burmese python being the goal.

"A punt is a flat boat with a broad front, designed for use in small rivers or other shallow water . . . The punter pushes a pole against the river bed and this gives the punt a way to move."

Realistic, live training, not a canned exercise, special ops units, living rough in a rough environment, locating and eradicating the pythons, an element of danger being constantly present from a variety of sources [alligators, poisonous snakes, the pythons themselves!]!

YES, this form of special operations "training" mission would actually involve KILLING your "enemy", your quarry. THIS IS NOT A GAME!! Serious business testing all the skills the special operations troop is taught during training, including wilderness survival, stalking, etc., each individual team sustaining itself for an extended period by living off the land, air-drop resupply, and combinations thereof.

And helping to preserve the eco-system of a national park in the process.

You might even be able to make a profit from this enterprise? The skins of those pythons are highly sought after as a source of leather for various goods, shoes, purses, wallets, etc. Hate to think of it in that way, but the thought does cross my mind.

Am I over the top here, or is it:

Good training!!

coolbert.