An Oklahoma Marine is recovering from a ghastly wound.
Doctors had to amputate his lower leg after he was bitten by a rattlesnake near Ft. Sill, Oklahoma in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge.
Despite the horrific injury caused by the poisonous venom, he is alive thanks to two of his buddies.
Marines Taylor Quackenbush and Matthew Holliday were with their friend, Anthony Kemp, hiking through the rugged hills of the refuge when Kemp was bitten on the calf by an angry rattler.
It seemed to come out of nowhere; no warning rattles at all.
Quackenbush describes what happened next.
"I called 911. My other friend helped him walk a little bit. He was in pain. But he was being really tough about it, being extremely brave."
