From right, Lee Diez, former Army cavalry scout, Elizabethtown, Ky., holds a line as Vincent Askew, former Army infantryman, Elizabethtown, Ky., pulls an alligator to the surface of the bayou, as Lucas Hancock, former Army mortarman, McKinney, Texas, prepares to shoot the alligator and Ashton Callaway, Chambers County Emergency Medical Technician, films the process, during the 8th Annual Wallisville Lake Veteran Gator Hunt, Sept. 29, 2023. The Wallisville Lake Project is a large area (23,000 acres) of protected wetlands, swamp forest, and bottomland hardwood forest created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for salinity control, navigation, water supply, recreation, and fish and wildlife enhancement.