Joel Struthers spent six years as a legionnaire (and more specifically as a member of the elite Group Commando Parachutistes). The French Foreign Legion, a branch of the French army, is one of the most famous military organizations in the world. Joel is the author of Appel, A Canadian in the French Foreign Legion, which details his time with the Legion, his experiences, the selection and recruitment process, and combat deployments to Africa. Joel is also a helicopter pilot and a partner in a Canadian risk mitigation firm that solves difficult problems in challenging environments Today's Sponsors: Black Rifle Coffee- https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ BetterHelp- This episode is sponsored by/brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/CLEAREDHOT and get on your way to being your best self.
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good morning everybody welcome back how many of you have heard about the french foreign legion Now, second question. How many of you, even though you know what the French Foreign Legion is, or I should say what it stands for, really have no idea what they do and the individuals that encompass the French Foreign Legion? I fall into the latter category. I knew what the acronym was.
I understood it had something to do with the French military, but I really didn't know anything about the individuals that comprise it. The beauty of the internet that allows people to reach out. My guest today is Joel Struthers. He is the author of the book, Appel, which chronicles his experience in the French Foreign Legion. He's Canadian, probably French Canadian.
He speaks a little parlez-vous Francais, if you will. And more importantly than all of this, he's now a helicopter pilot, which anybody following kind of my journey through aviation knows. That's probably what I really wanted to talk about. And we talked about it a good amount. But what a cool way to understand.
why somebody would want to join the Foreign Legion, what they do, what the process entails. Once you make it through selection, what are you able to do? What are you expected to do? What does your life look like? What are the benefits of serving in the Foreign Legion? Really cool. First person I've ever actually sat down with, with individual firsthand experience in the Foreign Legion.
So that will be my guest today. Before we get to my guest, stay with me. Give me 90 seconds. Let's pay the bills. Let's keep bringing the podcast to everybody for free. Thank you. Today's episode is brought to you by Black Rifle Coffee. We're diving straight into the website right now. For those of you who are listening, you can just listen and follow along.
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You can shop coffee, you can shop apparel, you can shop gear, and you can shop energy. Now energy over here on the right is the newest of offerings, but I've covered that twice. Let's go back over here to shop coffee and just see where this takes us. You can look at their roasts. All right, this is scrolling us through. And this is, again, depending on what the person likes.
There are dark roasts, medium roasts. There are coffee rounds. There are instant coffee. I mean, you name it. This is everything coffee related. Coffee grinds. This is something I've never understood, mostly because I've never been a dipper, but people who dip essentially coffee, a little bit wild to me. It goes on and it goes on and it goes on.
Now you could go just click on the top coffee up top and actually it's bringing us right back where we were. So you know what? We're going to go one more over. Actually, we're going to go to gear because this is what I'm looking for. This is things that you can drink coffee out of. You got mugs, you got thermoses, dog belts, Yetis, Chemex, you name it. So if you love coffee,
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