18th CES Airmen and 3DMEDBN Sailors handle Okinawan snakes

U.S. Navy Lt. Riley Tedrow, left, 3d Medical Battalion preventative medicine technician, lowers a Taiwanese Beauty into a box during a subject matter expert exchange at Kadena Air Base, Japan, Nov. 20, 2024. Navy preventive medicine technicians learn operational preventive medicine, food service sanitation, water safety, entomology and deployment environmental surveillance in order to support service members’ health and safety. (Airman 1st Class Catherine Daniel, U.S. Air Force)

KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- Pest Managers with the 18 Civil Engineer Squadron and 3d Medical Battalion preventive medicine specialists and entomologists practiced snake handling procedures Nov. 20, 2024. During the training, 18 CES Airmen and 3DMEDBN Sailors shared information and experience to build more capable and versatile service members across Okinawa.

Kadena Air Base