Jean-Luc Pous has an interesting, and impressive, résumé, beginning at the beginning: Born in French-occupied Algeria just before the start of an eight-year war, he fled the country at age 10 while under fire. He later earned a mechanical engineering degree in France, but wanted to become a military pilot—a childhood visit to a military base with his father had ignited a passion to fly. However, lacking the required eyesight, he used the expertise he had gained as a parachute instructor and competitor in college to join the French military as a paratrooper and platoon commander. “It was the proper thing to do to repay them—the French paratroopers—for their support in the war,” Pous says. “They were the only ones…