Becoming Anonymous at the French Foreign Legion | Mike Drop Shorts - Episode 165 w/ Taylor Cavanaugh
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- A lot of people wish they could start over, but is there a way to genuinely start anew? French Foreign Legion and SEAL Team Seven vet Taylor Cavanaugh talks about getting a new name when he joined the French Foreign Legion, and why the fighting force is so quick to defend it's enlistees, even from INTERPOL.
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Trent Clayson definitely sounds like what a Frenchman thinks is a common American name
Maybe like 100 years ago a name like that was common in the USA but with all the immigration throughout the decades yeah not so much anymore
Oh yeah! “I’m Mark Hambugerson.”
Vive la France !! ^^
Even the french names they give are pretty cliché. I think some dudes are having fun.
As a French person, I agree lol
They just went « fuck it let’s go with the Americanest possible name »
the masculine urge to disappear and start fresh is real
When did giving up on responsibilities become masculine?
@@WizAquiladawn of humanity
@@WizAquila Wanting a fresh start is not giving up on responsibilities… WTF are you talking about
@Sams240ss yeah it is. Your incel heroes just won't tell you
@@Idkwhodawg You have a responsibility to be a respected member of your family and community. Cowering away from that isn't masculine.
He just cut the best ad the FFL could ever ask for 😂
Lmaooo literally
Yeah I know! Last I heard the FFL are trying to charge him, and him to take all this stuff down. His argument is exactly that. “Look I’m helping you guys!”
@@coledifranco4931They ban you using the word literally.
@@coledifranco4931well. That’s my vocabulary exhausted but ye.
Like could not be a better advert.
He missed out all the crap at the start though lol.
But if you’ve come from that type of environment it is just like going back to the start again. Feels… humbling.
Then you got grown men acting like kids. But kids that can do damage.
Lotta fights in there in the start (zero afterwards tho)
Respect. This guys story is a maid anyone reading this doesn’t know it, I highly recommend checking it out ✌️🫡
@@J-Mac8this actual video is one of the things they annoyed about tho. More specifically the date of birth and initials thing Because.. well you can imagine how they get them x
He forgot to mention that you can still keep your civil name if your want, it's not an obligation anymore
Well he did say that the members are allowed to get back their old passport and name later on after being in the legion for a few years.
Which is min 5 year's
No, you can actually request to recover your real name as soon as you arrive into the combat regiment.
@@Anonymous8317No, as i already stated, it's not an obligation anymore during your service.
After service
My brother work in French Legion,he did go when he was 18,from Albania,now he is 35 and still going hard,he have a beautiful life there,family and did make good money,he was deployed in diffentet places,and he loves it. He have a french passport
rrespekte per vllaun
Your English needs work, but thankyou for the explanation. It wasn't terrible. But please keep working on it
A ke instagram o vlla. Flasim pak atje
@@bennett420316 why do you feel the need to criticize my English? when I told I was not American, and did say nothing about the subject. but thanks, I hope you learn some other languages so we can understand each other better. I wish you the best.
@@DP-mz8fo rrofsh vlla, rrespekte shqipe
Trent Clayson is such a cool name.
Edit: I like the name Latham Ward personally.
No joke i would've kept that name
This has making of a great book film jack reacher kinda feel to it great stuff 👍
Sounds feminine as fuck 😂
Except for the fact this podcast has hosted a lot of known stolen valor/fake vets. This probably isn’t real.
@@pilotjoe4010 oh, I had no idea
Taylor Cavanaugh was also interviewed on "Soft White Underbelly". He spoke for over two hours in total, and it was not boring - very compelling story. He called the experience in the French Foreign Legion " . . . a baptism in humility."
🎉😂❤
By "no international arms trafficking" do they mean inside of the united states to inside or inside the united states to outside because at this point thats basically what our country was founded upon
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@@jakewillits4678 do you have a source on this you can cite?
The French Foreign Legion is solid and legitimate.
I was a liaison to them during the Gulf War. I was in the 101st Airborne...
Came back with a Beret and everything.
VIVE LA FRANCE !!!🇫🇷 🇺🇸🦅
Oldest Ally!
@@Likeaworm YUuuuuUP! HoAh!
They give you a phone number. Need help any where in the world, make that call, they will come get you. Solid folks. Toughest training there is.
Cheaper than Uber
Nah id say RMC is harder
@@RoughWalkers RCMP training is toughest bar none
@@Bluefalconspiracies 😂😂😂😂😂😂👍
USMC is tougher training than FFL. My Drill Instructors used to make fun of Recruits, telling them that if they don't cut it there at bootcamp to become Marines, then they could definitely join the French Foreign Legion. 😂😂😂😂😂
I was going to join. I wanted to learn some French before I left. During that time my pops got sick and I had to stick around to take care of him. During the year of me taking care of him before he passed life got so busy and I never went. My dream was to join the Army but they wouldn't accept me so I was going to do the next best thing imo. Those dudes are total badasses. Part of me regrets not going still but the other half is happy with where my life went. I just always wanted to join and now I'm to old. Kids if you have a dream follow it. No regrets.
If I knew about the legion when I was 20 I would have gone for sure, got discharged from the Marines but I wasn't done yet, now, no chance I'd make it through
How'd you get discharged at 20?
@@DefendTheStarhe stuck the battalion gerbil up his chocolate starfish 💀
Yeah, Man, I hear you. I screwed my Marine Corps career with a DD. I was learning to seak French. I had a rabid ambition to redress my USMC defeasance.
@@billy5402honey stop telling the rest of the world what you are doing .... poor lass, just trick her until she finds this 12 years the road. Your poor mother, what are you doin'!!
@@carlyncook1211 I bet you demand to be addressed as your husband's rank..
My father was in the foreing legion in guyanna and tchad, huge respect to them
Congrats. Your daddy protected French interests from Brazilian gold miners and child soldiers. Goof
I trained a French Foreign Legion Officer on how to fight Wildland Fires. Cool dude, extremely tough. He still lives here in NM.
How have the fires been down there this season? Until recently we’ve been stuck in Oregon on the eastern fires. Stay safe out there✌️
I've looked at it. It's a good way to get a start in life however, it's probably one of the hardest.
Their physical training is intense.
Its very run heavy
The French military still uses corporal means to motivate, meaning their leaders strike your body with a stick when you don't follow through correctly.
@@deeznutz8320
Run heavy? Doesn't surprise me, we are talking about the French here 🤔
Historically they wanted to cover more ground than any other army. You could not hit and run. A thousand km later they are still in your trail
@@deeznutz8320
@@benjamingroeneweg4097 I dunno, I read somewhere that about 10% on average die on duty.
“Their soul belongs to the legion now!” *robed figures slowly begin to appear chanting in French*
Chanting old german songs in french😮
Oh shut up. There are people who start over.... because they work for it. As to the actual governments' policy of, "hey, who cares? Let's just let everyone in...."
"Part of the ship, part of the crew. Part of the ship, part of the crew."
@@carlyncook1211 who the fuck pissed in your coffee
None of that happens
Around 21 years old I did a lot of research and put a lot of thought into this but at the time 5 years seemed like such a long time lol if I had known then what I know now about how fast 5 years goes by lol😅
I did the same thing and didn't go,I kinda regret it
Your all liars too yourself and all these comments please be honest and touch grass 😂😂you guys never went never will and obviously never would have
@@GeniusIn30s Genius lol 30 is your iq score isn't? Must be seeing that your reading comprehension is that of a 3rd grader
@@GeniusIn30sYou share ishowspeed content, and Kai Cenat content.
Upload a video of you running a mile, doing 5 pull ups, and 25 push-ups.
Probably can't because you're some fat sweaty child sitting behind a keyboard.
If anyone here in the comment section needs to touch grass, it's definitely you.
@@GeniusIn30sAnd on top of all that, you listen to CUCK-O.... anything you have to say, either as a rebuttal, to the conversation or me asking you to upload that video, is immediately thrown out of the window.
😂 Immediately, go outside and touch grass.
For those wondering about having to learn French, you will be taught French and you will speak it, quickly. You'll be amazed how fast you learn when the pressure is on. Learning French in the FFL is the easiest part.
Yeah right😂
I’ve been getting a lot of recruiting videos lately in my feed. Some are nicely done, some are obvious
@arcwelder588 Obvious for being scammer fakes? Like job applications meant to scam ID information?
Imagine you do this and they give you "Bobson Dougnut"
I love that screenshot. the american baseball players with names thought up by japanese people lol. lots of funny names there
I’ll always stand by my opinion that France is and always will be our oldest ally. Regardless of what you might think of their past performances in warfare, the French people are tenacious. The FFL just reinforces that. And that last bit about them telling Interpol to f*ck off is gold
When the USA went to put Kadafi down in Libiya, France refused to let the USA fly thru their air space. Something fishy, there.......
Muricans should remember who offered them their independence.
@@lewie7820you’re confusing Lybia and Iraq mate, France took part in the air strikes on Gaddaffi’s convoy that ended up getting him killed.
Country who won the most wars ever
@@lewie7820 yeah something fishy about putting down *Gadaffi, right as he introduces a gold standard currency independent of a central bank.
This is the best commercial for the french foreign legion❤❤😂😂 Tough stuff you guys are awesome
My brother was in the Kegion for 12 years. One of the first responders into Rwanda when the genocide started happening. He doesn’t 6 months there. Was in the civil war in Chad and many more conflicts. He was awarded so many medals and the stories he had to tell are like nothing you can imagine. Here’s to my brother and his bravery.
Hate to tell you this but France was very complicit in the Rwandan genocide
Something unexplainably deep in that feeling
Back in the day they supposedly had a fair number of SS personnel who had fought in WW2, and perhaps had war crimes in their past. Many of them died in VietNam or Algeria.
A few of my friends went to Rhodesia after Vietnam and were fighting against the Communist their- the Mau Mau Rebellion caused thousands of deaths of not only people but wildlife to . They killed hundreds of Elephants and Rhinos for their Ivory and the Chinese Medical uses of the horn . It was a lot like the way when trains first crossed our American prairies and thousands upon thousands were slaughtered basically to starve the Indians and collect a few hides .
I moved to BC Canada to restart my life to keep my family safe after I retired from US Marshal Service Fugitive SRT .. ( We're basically US Government Bounty Huntington).. Got a Canadian SIN .. 900 Credit score.. Married a First Nation's woman.. live high in where the Cascades meets the Rockies..
Now those threats have become long gone..
I wouldnt mind a restart,at my age,learning from the pro and con choices I’ve made so far,yeah I would start over
The legion looks after the men till they die if they live in the retirement section, the life is still disciplined and routine based but to a lower level then serving troops obviously, but if they want to stay with the legion because it's the only family they have they can
LOYALTY
The most gangster thing about it is havin warrants in both identities....... checkmate
“They give you a European social security number” 😂😂
I was wondering if anyone else noticed 😂
Each country in the EU has its own social security for those wondering.
Good to be able to get redemtion and a new start from somewhere.
This was a great interview.
No lie, the U.S. needs something like this.
We gave it, it's called the army. If you're in the US as an immigrant and join up, you fast track for citizenship. They don't change your name though lmao.
@DefendTheStar No. That is not the Army. We need an almost no-questions asked, age doesn't matter, generational force to keep our more aggressive-minded people employed for our security.
@@DefendTheStaru need a Green Card for that tho?!
@@user-dd1uj5ud5i don't you have sonething like that with Blackwater?
@@DefendTheStar Yea no. As a Canadian who looked into it, you need a permanent residence or a green card to get in.
Great Pod Cast Brother!! Awesome content! Appreciate you!
Fun fact : a lot of French people go to the Légion, but since its illégal for French to enter it, they are given Canadian or Swiss citizenship at the beginning
Its not illegal for french people to join 😂
You contradict yourself twice thats hard hhaha
@@RoughWalkers well it is not allowed for french to fight as a french for the French Foreign Légion since you're not a foreigner 😉
Maybe that’s where all the milk dads went? 😅😂
Taylor aka Trent this time with Ritland was 1st Class!! 👍🐸🔱
Brilliant interview! Thank you ❤
Fresh restart the most important part.
I've been thinking about trying to join the legion for a while now but I read on the website that you have to apply in person. Not sure if I can afford a trip to France only to get rejected on some off chance, but I guess I understand the point.
There probably is an office near you. I know in the Netherlands you can apply in Rotterdam, they ship you to France asap.
Well, you can't apply any other way, man! Same for ALL the Forces. You can't apply online and be a stay at home soldier!! Jeez!
FFL is badass. By far the coolest and masculine thing the French are responsible for.
You don't know your history. The French have won more battles than any other nation.
The USA only exists because of the French and Russians, who helped the British men who wanted to be independent in America beat the British who were loyal to the crown.
Man this episode was Awesome!! They are All good but this one was killer
Me I could not do such. Thought abt it. I was also warned abt it as well.
I could never turn my back on the US. I went into the Marine Corps instead. That was my best decision and turning point.
I could never turn my back on Old Glory.
FFL have given up great brave men for the good of humanity
They’ve done fucked up things like the CIA did in South America in order to line the pockets of rich businessmen in France, including fighting against their own allies and UN forces.
Id be devestated if i left my old life and ended up with some goofy new name like lance nobgobblin 😂
There is no such thing as european social security number...
Likely refers to the VAT ID Number for tax forms.
@@flyingturret208thecannon5still per-country in EU.
It refers to the french social security number, it works in all europe.
I was so close to joining the FFL. Ended up in the 101st.
Wish I could disappear and become someone else.
He just told you how, lol. Do it or don’t, it’s all up to you. Stay strong.
you can, FFL is always taking those willing, you just gotta be willing to learn French, really really willing, you get 6 weeksish to be competent, and you aren't allowed to use your prior language during this training period.
@@notafanboytotally4627I mean unless you are a sex offender…. Hopefully that’s not the case here though.
@@DankasorusRex getting there illegally is actually a bonus in recruitment because they will think its pretty impressive you went to the extent of crossing the border and taking a huge risk in subverting law and all of the practical barriers put in place to try to prevent you from crossing
This is amazing.
This was the best interview I've seen, and I'm a UA-cam junkie, props to Mike!!
Watch the interview with Julian McDonald.
Had a buddy who started the process but didn't get through medical. Pretty much everything this guy said.
Good on you brother! Great example of owning your shit like a MAN instead of a pity parade. Keep getting after it. I’m sure social media will be seeing more you in the near future.
I’d want the my new French name to be “Jacques lecawk Grande “
😂
Brilliant! Wish I’d done it years ago
I'm going in August
Nothing but a bunch of bullies who would not beat eggs stay away from that shit hole go to us or brits
I was infantry in the USMC.
If I could do it all over again this might have been it.
I looked into this after I got out. The 2 recruiting stations in France, they’ll just take you right then and there. You renounce your citizenship and go. You can get ranked for having prior service or other skills that would be considered “significant” to the FFL.
Ranked? Man we had guys who were officers before in their armies, everybody starts as legionnaire and it dkesn't matter what you did before, as you see he did it also to corporal rank, which is almost everybody in legion who makes 5 years do it, mine was at 2,4 year service mark.
You don't renounce your citizenship they take your passport
Thats not how it works lol
You’ve been listening to drunken bar stories.
They do not accept everyone, everyone can try out but they are EXTREMELY selective
If I wasn't already too old I would have applied already. Vive La Legion Étrangere! 🇫🇷
Mum wanted me to go to the legion. But, I went to the Corps
Mum wanted you to disappear? Or doesn't want to share the same last name? 😅
That's F'ng awesome! Taylor is the best!
This is form my fav interview. This guy is an inspiration.
I definitely looked into this few years back
You have a neck tattoo bro. Super stealthy.
Still a dream of mine but I'm 37 and own a dog now ❤
My sticky note would say, Mr. Bean.
Theire unofficial motto is :
"First to arrive, last to leave."
Beside that you have stict rules the first few years, you are part of legion all the time, you wear the uniform all the time, can't get married.. etc
You can get back your name and nationality after you served if you want it.
They are respected but also fear, for many soldier the legion became their family and due to their activity and the uprooting of their culture/country/past.
But the time where you have war criminal, drug traffickers et stuff like that is a story from the past mainly.
Shit, thats a dope name
Fyi for thise wondering,You can join without prior military experience.Ages i think are 18-35 .Just no felonies or sex crimes.But good luck.Heard its hard Asf to get in.Only way to find out is to get a passport and fly over there,Go straight to the front gate and start the process
How I never found out details about the FFL until I was 41-42 after trying 8-10x to join the army n marines between ages 18-35 will probably haunt my thoughts til the day I die. Will never ever forget that moment n chewing my buddy out for not saying something. (First 3 felonies at age 14, many more through 22 if curious why denied. All for fighting. Not scumbag criminal sht)
You couldn't have been trusted! Your past shows your inability to be a part of the team. You never would have made it in the Marines? Semper Fi
Lol. U don't have that many felonies bro lol for fighting. Maybe for armed robbery. But a fight? No. And if u had all those felonies u claim then u would be locked up for 10 years for violent offender. So maybe u got charged, but u don't have that many violent felonies. Stop lying
@@jtboss8139 Ok “Boss” lol. You’re free to think what you want. But where I grew up down in Fla they don’t mess around. Once they got you once they hammer you every time after. It’s not hard to catch a sh*tload of charges, and I didn’t do myself any favors drinking all the time n running around with the knuckleheads I was. N I never said I didn’t do any time. Definitely could’ve done more than 10 easy, but a good attorney helps a lot with that.
@@peterberglund5492 Man y’all marines never miss a chance to backup that stereotype smh. It’s funny you should say that though bc as it happens I have a buddy that’s a marine recruiter n he told me straight up what it was. It shows I’m unlikely to take being yelled at n talked down to without reacting in a negative way. So just go back to munchin on them crayons boy bc making comments just ain’t your strong suit.
@@jtboss8139if you were there the whole time were you? Fuq off.
If I was 15 years younger, I'd sign up tomorrow
Imagine becoming snake pliskin in real life💀 shit would go so hard lmao
Snake? Snaaaaaake!
Nowadays…after some time (1-3 years) they are obligated to change your given name with your real name.
They will hand you an official document for that.
Exactly to avoid stupid legal issues in France or abroad….while serving the FFL and to also avoid certain restrictions.
Great opportunity for a lot of guys. How much time do you have to serve? Asking for a friend.
5 years.
It's 5. Did you even type that into a browser?
@@MarkH10 doesn't need to when we have a mark. Mark's are good for remembering sh8%
i got a friend in spain who was in the ffl and damn that guy was scary af everybody parted ways wen he strolled down the st
The french ideal of "your french now" is the opposite of "your unique culture makes you American"
We’ve been fed the American bullshit lately, everything is falling apart since then
I’m french i have a brother in the legion.
JUST TO TELL THE TRUTH: YES YOU HAVE A NEW IDENTITY BUT ITS ONLY FOR 1YEAR.
YOUR 1ST YEAR of test/training THEN YOU TAKE YOUR OLDER NAME.
( legion do not take crime guilty people or people with no ID.
It’s a legend.
And you have to present a real passport for start legion test )
Sorry for my english,
Love yall
Max powers and I'm joining,
Chad Thundercock
Tu as donné 5 ans pour la France, merci à toi
wish I could go. too old now.
How old are you?
Same here
I didnt know they still had that. Some people definitely deserve a second chance. Most people do. Some dont but most do.
French named him "Trent Clayson" I mean they could have just said American officer on our team #12
Yet he isn’t an officer so that would be even weirder
I talked to a recruiter in Germany from th FFL while stationed there. Later in the years at the age of 33, they weren't interested because of my age, even though i had done some contract work. I was told that my contract work was spotty, because i had extended times between deployments. ( 1 yr to 16 mos.) I had somewhat a life.
Can anyone check if my dad is there, left to get milk, said French Milk is better
If thrump isn’t in office by next year, I know where I’m heading to
That's completely crazy
He really disappeared and started fresh talking about his life story 😂
Wish i had known sooner.
"Trent clayson"! CMON!🎉
He talks bullshit.
I need to hear more from this guy
More lies?
@@gregoriodia is everything he's saying a lie?
I had a gung-ho kid in my platoon in the USMC, dude joined at 17 he was the youngest marine on base two years in a row for the Ball.
All but one of the SNCOs for out platoon were basically useless and treated the non-rates like shit.
I was sure this kid was going to go to the FFN after our unit wouldn't let him transfer to another unit after passing their 3 day long test and then at the end of the Gulf War they wouldn't let him take my place on a plane headed back to the states so he could get married, they made him sit there in Al-Jabail for another 6 weeks I think.
Wish I knew about it when I was 18 or 19 I am a marine and to old to try the legion but would be awesome
No such thing as a european social security number 😅😅
Yep, this is French one, but it has nothing to do with new identity.
PID or Personal Identifiers. Social Security in the US has parallel systems in European nations, not necessarily that exact name.
He is giving you an interpretation to have significance, not an objectively factual name for the designated agency or it's issue to persons.
PID includes Birth date. That is why they change it. Prints and picture they don't attempt to change, but you have everything else erased, or overwritten.
@@MarkH10 the the thing is that this social security number gives you rights for... social and health security, that's all, if you do not get back to your real name you can't buy shit on fake name, no car, not even renting appartment, nothinf, althoufg I managed to get forfeit on my mobile phone because they didn't care so much in shop, but everything else is a no go, that's why this whole new identity is just for recruitment process, so you also feel that you start new life, you can't also get a civil driver license on that name neither, there are a lot of things you can't have with that, that's why it's worth jack shit and 90% or more legos go back to real name.
@@CMX70 not a collective though.
@@MrTomowolfonly in America
Nowadays IT is just a legend
Hard to change identities with a neck covered in tattoos.
I once knew this dude name Leon. He ran to take care of his family his neice in particular. Started fighting bareknuckle street fights for cash. He got hooked up with this oldhead who used to fight a bit and tried to steer him in the right direction. Needless to say he got involved with this shady lady who wind up playing him in the long run and betting against him with this beast of a man named Atilla. Leon won and everything worked out in the end but this dude was a badass. Had 2 guys waiting for him at end to take him back to the Legion. Was called Lionheart from that day forward.
I have friends who served in the legion, solid guys.
I’m good proud to be American 🇺🇸
The problem with a _nom de guerre_ is that you are no longer a citizen of your country of origin. Any attempt by your government or your family to find you will be blocked by the Legion.
You don't get French citizenship (and the chance to become an NCO) until you have completed your first 5 years of service.
Some very interesting documentaries related to the FRENCH LEGION.
Heard after you finish your service with them they set you up with a nice country side house. More what they do for vets over here in the US
I've met an ex legion soldier.
He was an interesting guy.