I Crossed The Channel In A Dinghy | Lee West Royal Marines #353

Posted on 3 July 20233 July 2023 by Chris Thrall

I Crossed The Channel In A Dinghy, features Lee West, who was a colour sergeant in the Royal Marines, serving in four tours of duty.

I Crossed The Channel In A Dinghy | Lee West Royal Marines

I Crossed The Channel In A Dinghy, features Lee West, who is a former Royal Marines Commando. Lee has completed four tours of Iraq & Afghanistan. In this podcast, he tells us how he crossed the English Channel in a dinghy & easily outsmarted the border patrols. Lee also gives us some insight into his work in the middle-east, working with a special forces unit and foiling a kidnapping.

Transcript from ‘I Crossed The Channel In A Dinghy’ podcast

Lee – It that was going to be the culmination of a week of living in France. So we went to Paris first of all to take part in the yellow vest protests. I was tear gassed by the French police and I’ve got it on video, it’s brilliant. We went to one of the notorious migrant camps on the outskirts of Paris.

Chris – Were you trying to prove a political point?

Lee – We didn’t go in with a bias, we went there with a purpose. We didn’t want to go in with any preconceptions. But we didn’t want to go in there and then to be the focus of what we’re going to see.