Canadian Special Operations Face Off with ISIS | Sebastian "Butch" Bouchard | Ep. 378

The Team House

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History, Government, Society & Culture, Documentary

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🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Sebastian Bouchard, a veteran of the Canadian Special Operations Regiment (CSOR), recounts his 15-year career, beginning with the unit's founding after the infamous Airborne Regiment disbandment and detailing the brutal selection process . His operational history spans night raids in Afghanistan, a chaotic deployment in Libya, and intense close-quarters combat during the 2015 ISIS push in Iraq. Finally, Bouchard shares his post-military struggle with service-related TBI and his success with unconventional medical treatment, which inspired him to found the global risk mitigation firm, the 242 Group.
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0:00 Start/Origin Story
4:52 CSOR founded (2006).
15:02 CSOR Selection difficulty.
29:36 First deployment: Afghanistan.
45:04 2011 Libya rapid deployment.
50:29 Made fake IDs in Libya.
1:06:11 Commanding Iraq front line.
1:11:28 Major ISIS breakthrough.
1:39:41 TBI treatment success.

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0:00.0	The Team House with your host, Jack Murphy and David Park.
0:12.3	Hey, folks.
0:13.3	Welcome to episode 378 of the Team House.
0:16.5	I'm Jack Murphy here tonight with our guest.
0:18.8	I'm really happy to have on the show tonight,
0:27.1	a veteran of the Canadian Special Operations Regiment or Seesore. His name is Sebastian Bouchard. Goes by Butch. That's how all of his teammates know him. Nice to see you, man.
0:33.3	Our first Seesore veteran on the show. We're really happy to have you here.
0:38.6	Thank you.
0:39.5	Yeah, I'm happy to be here.
0:41.1	Families in bed.
0:42.0	It's laid here in London, and we go out all the time.
0:46.3	Thanks for doing it.
0:47.4	Look, I even dust it off my Csore pole.
0:51.9	Yeah, I love it.
0:54.6	So I usually ask people at the beginning of the podcast to tell kind of their origin
0:59.3	story.
0:59.8	If you can tell us a little bit about how you grew up and how that took you towards military
1:03.5	service.
1:06.4	Yeah.
1:08.0	You know, I join in 17.
1:10.7	You can tell him my accent. I'm French-Canadian. It's important
1:15.1	for your audience, you're U.S.-based. And I like to say that. I'm French-Canadian because
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