David French
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3,314 appearances
17 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 19 Sep
David French’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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California and, you know, you've got these sort of stereotypes of all these people from around the country.
And then I arrive and it's all true.
That's the way it is.
So here, you know, we had, I was with an armored cavalry unit, not an infantry unit, but we had the very same dynamic.
And it was just remarkable, the diversity of people.
I put it this way.
That the U.S.
military has achieved the diversity that colleges say they want but never get close to achieving.
We had diversity by race, by ethnicity, by religion, by class.
I mean, the whole spectrum and lots of different personality types.
You know, you have to be willing.
You have to be somebody who's willing to take orders and to take direction.
You have to be humble enough and pliant enough to recognize that you don't know everything, that you are not an expert in everything, and that sometimes people are going to have to tell you what to do, and it's going to be absolutely critical that you say, yes, sir, yes, ma'am, and do it.
But beyond just that very basic ability, if you're able-bodied, if you have enough humility to swallow your pride and take orders, and I will honestly say, even if you have doubts about your courage,
You are someone who can serve.
It's funny, who rises to the occasion and who shrinks away is not predictable based on someone's attitude about themselves entering the military or entering a combat zone.
I saw people who are very quiet.
people who had expressed privately to me doubts, performed magnificently, just magnificently.
I mean, and again, this isn't cliche.
I saw people who had a lot of bravado, who said they couldn't wait to get out there and get at the enemy, that when we took our first losses and it became very, very real, and you realize that, no, this isn't theoretical anymore.
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