Becoming Anonymous at the French Foreign Legion | Mike Drop Shorts - Episode 165 w/ Taylor Cavanaugh

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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[jordanvangundy]

Trent Clayson definitely sounds like what a Frenchman thinks is a common American name

[Johnathan]

Maybe that’s where all the milk dads went? 😅😂

[charlesharper]

French foreign legion is a very tough outfit. 👍

[trusailietazperlinski]

Just wanted to see his dad's dad and his dad👋 yup. Beautiful like them too.

[jamesking]

50%: That sounds like a name the French thinks we'd think is cool.
other 50%: That's such a cool name

[ringo]

I was a couple years over the age limit for admission when I found this out and i was more disappointed than I thought I'd be, lol...
Still am...😕😜

[ThomasPerniciaro]

I almost did that out of high school in 2001 but I got honey potted by a DEP to good old Columbus. I meant DP’d to good old sand hill😂

[mikeycoyne]

I’d be like the names Trent Carlson but you can call me Tren

[MyBudo]

Not everybody changes their name.

Its optional

[charlottereitberger]

I don’t think they have SSN in France, they give you a phone number .

[GrandDaddyCough]

French foreign legions symbol is a dying Marijuana leaf

[williamadams]

Well I have done some things wrong but never that wrong where I need a whole new Identity.

[jackl]

the masculine urge to disappear and start fresh is real

[KlausGrReset]

He just cut the best ad the FFL could ever ask for 😂

[The_Gabe_]

Trent Clayson is such a cool name.

Edit: I like the name Latham Ward personally.

[DefconLaccuci]

He forgot to mention that you can still keep your civil name if your want, it's not an obligation anymore

[franclizi]

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

[ronaldschild]

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."

[lewie]

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.

[quitequiet]

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 !!!🇫🇷 🇺🇸🦅