Idealist with ‘superhero complex’ wants to help others
“I kind of have this thing — I’ve been calling it a superhero complex — where I want to help people.
“At one point, I thought about becoming a police officer. When I was 15, I wanted to be a vigilante. I had a mask. I had police scanner codes in my closet. I was ready to go out there and stop the drug lords. I was just this teenager who weighed 130 pounds. I didn’t have any martial arts training or anything. Needless to say, it didn’t happen. My friends found the mask. They give me hell about it whenever they can. It’s literally just an orange ski mask that I cut out eye holes and drew on with a Sharpie.
“I thought about trying to join the CIA. But they’re like a recruiting thing. I don’t think I have the aptitude for it anyway.
“There’s this political science professor at (Texas) A&M who was in the CIA. He’s a decommissioned operative. He and his wife were this tandem couple. He was telling us about how he got recruited. He got a phone call, and they said to meet them at this location. He went there, and then they took him away to this place called The Farm. It’s where they train people. They taught him Spanish, French, Italian — like six different languages. Then, bada bing, bada boom. It just kind of happened. That would have been in the 60s or 70s. So it’s probably even more intense than that now.
“At 21, I’m still very idealistic. I’ve got these grandiose ideas of what I want to do for the world. I just don’t quite know how to go about it.”
— Troy Breaux-Hare
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