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The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell

How I Survived War With ISIS: A Mercenary Tells All

The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell

Johnny Mitchell

True Crime

4.3562 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2024

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Taylor Cavanaugh, a former Navy SEAL, brings us into his life which feels straight out of an action movie at times. From battling ISIS in the deserts of the Middle East to surviving grueling SEAL training and joining the legendary French Foreign Legion, Taylor shares his incredible journey of resilience, transformation, and redemption. He dives into the details of being discharged by the SEALs and what life is really like for a mercenary. Go Support Taylor! Website: https://www.taylorcavanaugh.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/tcavofficial/ YouTube: @tcavofficial This Episode Is #Sponsored By MINT MOBILE! Support the show and get your new 3-month premium wireless plan for just $15 a month at https://mintmobile.com/connect Join The Patreon For Bonus Content! https://www.patreon.com/theconnectshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Sherlock Holmes.

0:01.8

It's an unusual name.

0:22.1

Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series. What game are we playing today? Discover the origins. It's cleaving. Those days are surely behind me. Of crime's most iconic mind. There has been a break-in. Astoned. You should be a detective. Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth.

0:25.5

If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you.

0:29.7

Young Sherlock, new original series. Watch now only on Prime Video.

0:31.7

I've seen Olympians quit in Bud's training.

0:34.7

They'll make dudes open their eyes and like drop sand in their face.

0:57.1

We went to Alaska, cold weather mountain warfare, swimming, doing over the beach attacks. I was flying, dude, like untouchable. I fucking hit a guy in a bar. I ended up getting aggravated assault. Reality, you can't bend that long. And it came crashing down. Next thing I know, dude, I'm like homeless in my truck. Taylor Kavanaugh is a former Navy seal who was deployed to the Middle East during the height of the ISIS takeover in Iraq and Syria.

1:02.1

He was part of the early military campaign to take out this terrorist organization.

1:08.5

He recalls getting in shootouts with ISIS in the middle of the desert and calling in drone strikes on entire ISIS cells.

1:12.1

Later, after catching a felony case in America and getting kicked out of the seals, Taylor joined the French Foreign Legion and conducted clandestine missions all over the

1:17.2

world, including top secret private mercenary work that brought him face to face with death

1:22.3

multiple times. Taylor brings us into the mind of a top military man, a Navy SEAL, and explains what motivates people like him to risk their lives and suffer hardships halfway around the world.

1:33.6

Nowadays, Taylor has a thriving personal development business, so make sure to go check him out on all social media.

1:39.1

And for a bonus episode with Taylor, where he talks about his journey of getting sober and leaving the military life for good,

1:45.4

head over to patreon.com slash The Connect Show. This episode was absolutely fascinating, truly a part of

1:52.0

American and world history, this guy. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Taylor Kavanaugh right here

1:57.8

on The Connect with Johnny Mitchell. I went, you don't fuck that, dude. I'm going on the French Four Legion. It was going back to basics, dude. It was like, I call it a baptism in humility. That area of operation is powerful, dude. They call it L'Enferver, green hell. We'd sleep in hammocks, and just in the blackness you just all night

2:17.9

all night hollerm it sounds like the devil me

2:20.7

that's when I see lights behind me start the flash

2:23.3

and I didn't even think I just hit it I was driving

2:25.6

like my life depended on then I parked the car

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