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Combat Story

Combat Story

著者： AJ Pasciuti
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Combat Story is a podcast built on honest conversations with the men and women who lived it. These are not scripted interviews or highlight reels. They are real accounts from veterans across generations, including infantry, special operations, pilots, JTACs, and more, sharing what it was like to operate in high-stakes environments where decisions carried real consequences. Each conversation explores the path in, the moments that shaped them in combat, and how they carried those experiences forward into life after service. The goal isn't just to create content but to provide context, so the stories, decisions, and the people behind them are understood, preserved, and passed on. Thank you for walking beside us!Copyright Ryan Fugit 世界 社会科学 科学
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  • Inches From a Sniper Round in Syria | Graham Paul Roberts

    Inches From a Sniper Round in Syria | Graham Paul Roberts
    2026/10/12

    Graham Paul Roberts was 15 meters from a building in Syria when a man leaned around the corner. They saw each other and froze. The man stepped back, came out again, and raised his weapon. Graham fired first. Later, in a wood by the Menai Strait, while searching for his son, Graham saw that same man lean around a tree.

    Graham Paul Roberts, author of Echoes in the Silence, sat down with Combat Story to tell what came before that moment and what came after it.

    Graham was born in Wales in 1976, six weeks early and weighing two pounds, and doctors told his parents he would not live past 16. He spent 19 years in the Welsh Guards, from sentry duty at Buckingham Palace to patrols in Northern Ireland, instructing at Pirbright and Sandhurst, and a tour in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in 2012. After leaving the Army he worked close protection in Iraq and became project manager for a team of about 100. In 2015 he took a private military contractor job in Syria, mentoring a special battalion of Syrian fighters in the fight against ISIS.

    In this conversation, Graham takes us through a childhood in a special educational needs unit and the bullying that came with it. He tells the story of a decision in Kenya, when he had a young soldier bury a grenade and a belt of ammunition to protect his company's name, and the rank it cost him. In Syria, he describes living in a mountain bunker, building a replica trench to train his battalion, first contact at 15 meters, a day pinned down in an olive grove, and a sniper's round from roughly 1,000 meters away that tore the rifle from his hand. He explains the moment he accepted he was going to die and the peace that came with it.

    Then he follows the story home: the nightmares, the drinking, the face he began to see in every room, the loss of his sister and his mother, the point where he planned to end his life, and the day he asked for help. He talks about the diagnosis of complex PTSD, the way he learned to face his memories, the work he does now with children who have special needs, and the book he wrote hoping it reaches the right reader.

    CHAPTERS
    0:00 Cold open and introduction
    3:29 Born at two pounds
    6:58 Joining the Welsh Guards
    16:50 9/11 and Northern Ireland
    22:00 Pirbright, covert surveillance, and Sandhurst
    34:29 Kenya: burying the ammunition
    40:00 Afghanistan and Bastion
    47:35 Close protection in Iraq
    51:21 The call that led to Syria
    1:01:11 Crossing into Syria
    1:14:27 First contact at 15 meters
    1:21:12 Pinned down and the sniper
    1:28:02 The moment he accepted death
    1:31:09 Beirut, an IED, and a destroyed town
    1:41:48 Fighting ISIS
    1:48:52 Coming home
    1:53:35 The woods and asking for help
    2:00:14 Finding purpose and writing the book
    2:05:00 Living with the echoes

    Find Graham:
    Echoes in the Silence (US): https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/echoes-in-the-silence-graham-paul-roberts/1150973652?ean=9781972688755
    Echoes in the Silence (UK): https://www.waterstones.com/book/echoes-in-the-silence/graham-paul-roberts/9781972688748
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roberts0902/
    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@grahampaulroberts
    X: https://x.com/robbo76bng
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/graham.roberts0809

    AJ Pasciuti is a retired Marine Force Recon Scout Sniper and Infantry Weapons Officer (Marine Gunner), author of Darkhorse: Harnessing Hidden Potential in War and Life, and host of the Combat Story Podcast, where veterans and extraordinary individuals share honest, unfiltered stories of combat, survival, leadership, and life after adversity.

    Find AJ online:
    Darkhorse: https://www.ajpasciuti.com/Darkhorse
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ajpasciuti/
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelo-pasciuti/
    Website: https://www.ajpasciuti.com/

    If you are a veteran in crisis or thinking about suicide, call or text 988 and press 1 (U.S. Veterans Crisis Line). In the UK, call Samaritans at 116 123.
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  • The Manhunt for Saddam Hussein | Lt. Col. Steve Russell (Ret.)

    The Manhunt for Saddam Hussein | Lt. Col. Steve Russell (Ret.)
    2026/09/28

    On December 13, 2003, a battalion commander's six-month intelligence hunt ended in a spider hole outside Tikrit, and the man hiding in it was Saddam Hussein. Lieutenant Colonel Steve Russell, U.S. Army (Ret.), led that hunt, and he sat down with Combat Story to tell it from the inside.

    Steve Russell spent 21 years as an Army infantry officer, with deployments to Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Iraq. In the spring of 2003 he took command of 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, and spent the following months building the intelligence network that led to the raid that found Saddam Hussein hiding on a farm near ad-Dawr. The capture was a combined effort, Russell's soldiers working alongside Task Force 121, and it was Ambassador Paul Bremer who told the world "we got him" the next day. That line became the title of Russell's memoir, We Got Him!: A Memoir of the Hunt and Capture of Saddam Hussein. After retiring in 2006, Russell went on to serve in the Oklahoma State Senate and then the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Oklahoma's 5th district from 2015 to 2019.

    In this conversation, Steve takes us through becoming an infantry officer, the deployments before Iraq, the grind of a manhunt that ran for months before it produced a break, the night it came together outside Tikrit, and what it was like to watch that moment become a headline and then a book title. We also get into his second act: the jump from battalion commander to state senator to U.S. Congressman, and where his sense of service has taken him since.

    Guest:
    Steve Russell is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who served 21 years, deploying to Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Iraq. In 2003 he commanded 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, whose intelligence-driven manhunt near Tikrit led to the raid that found Saddam Hussein. He later served in the Oklahoma State Senate and as the U.S. Representative for Oklahoma's 5th district from 2015 to 2019. He is the author of We Got Him!: A Memoir of the Hunt and Capture of Saddam Hussein, available wherever books are sold.

    Find Steve online:
    Book: https://www.amazon.com/We-Got-Him-Capture-Hussein/dp/B0F5RNSBN4/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveRussellOK/

    Host:
    AJ Pasciuti is a retired Marine Force Recon Scout Sniper and Infantry Weapons Officer (Marine Gunner), author of Darkhorse: Harnessing Hidden Potential in War and Life, and host of the Combat Story Podcast, where veterans and extraordinary individuals share honest, unfiltered stories of combat, survival, leadership, and life after adversity.

    Find AJ online:
    Book: https://www.ajpasciuti.com/Darkhorse
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ajpasciuti/
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelo-pasciuti/
    Website: https://www.ajpasciuti.com/
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  • Reconnaissance Man — Episode 3: Evil Eye

    Reconnaissance Man — Episode 3: Evil Eye
    2026/09/21
    The Cold War was fought long before the first shots of Vietnam captured America's attention. By 1966, more than 400,000 U.S. troops were committed to the war, Marine Corps Captain James "Jim" Steele among them, on his first trip back to Vietnam since advising South Vietnamese forces in 1961. The war had escalated fast: an August 1964 attack on a U.S. Navy ship in the Gulf of Tonkin, and a second reported attack that later analysis showed never happened, pushed President Lyndon Johnson to commit American combat troops to the fight. This time, Steele was there to fight, and he would need every bit of his reconnaissance training to survive what came next. Episode 3 opens with Steele trading his assigned radio call sign, "Lavender Lace," for one he chose himself: Evil Eye. From there, we follow him through a training exercise in the Philippines that turned into a night spent tied to palm trees waiting for a tsunami that never arrived, and through the hard lessons of a second combat tour: picking up the remains of a Marine after a mine strike, discovering a fellow Marine killed by recoilless rifle backblast, and confining a Marine who fragged a fellow officer to an improvised cell until Division could take him away. The episode also tracks two of the tour's defining threats: a defective batch of M16s that jammed in the field and got Marines killed before the Marine Corps traced the problem to the wrong gunpowder, and a night ambush in which Steele's experience in nighttime combat pistol matches let him take out four infiltrating enemy soldiers by instinct, in the dark, before they reached his position. It builds to late April 1967, when a machine gun round passed through both of Steele's legs, narrowly missing the bone and a main artery. His rifle jammed. He dodged a grenade thrown at him, threw two of his own, and made his own tourniquets while his corporal was killed running to his aid. Wounded and bleeding, Steele talked his own medevac helicopter down to his position by radio. What followed, a mixed-up Red Cross telegram that told his wife Marlene he'd been shot in four places he hadn't been, an experimental surgical technique to save his legs from infection, and Steele altering his own service record to get back to the war before a doctor ever signed off on him, reveals a Marine who had trained himself, by his own account, to feel almost invincible. Reconnaissance Man is more than the story of one Marine. It is the story of reconnaissance itself, told through the career of one of its pioneers. In this episode: The Gulf of Tonkin incident and the road to a 400,000-troop warGetting the call sign "Evil Eye"A near-tsunami during training in the PhilippinesToughening up: picking up the pieces after a mine strikeFragging in the ranks and Private WashingtonThe M16's deadly jamming problem in the fieldVolley grenades, pistol tactics, and calling in fire supportA night ambush: taking out four infiltrators with a pistolWounded: shot through both legs in late April 1967Losing a corporal, and talking down his own medevacA telegram mix-up and an experimental surgery in GuamRewriting his own paperwork to get back to the war If you enjoyed Episode 2, Episode 3 follows Steele into the war he'd only advised on before, and the night that nearly ended his life. Chapters: 0:00 The Road Back to Vietnam 4:00 Tied to a Tree: The Philippines Tsunami Scare 6:45 Turning Hard: Picking Up the Pieces of War 10:35 Fragging in the Ranks: Private Washington 13:01 The M16's Deadly Jamming Problem 17:19 Grenades, Mortars, and Calling In Air Support 22:51 Night Ambush: Four VC in the Dark 27:14 Wounded: Shot Through Both Legs 33:15 Talking Down His Own Medevac 36:10 A Telegram and an Experimental Surgery in Guam 45:34 Getting Back to Vietnam Before His Legs Had Healed Created by investigative journalist Ashly McGlone in collaboration with the Marine Reconnaissance Foundation (MRF), and visually brought to life by Combat Story, Reconnaissance Man is a nine-part limited series following Steele's extraordinary 30-year military career through Vietnam, the Cold War, and beyond. 🎙️ Guest — James Lyle Steele James Lyle Steele is a retired U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel whose 30-year career carried him through Vietnam, the Cold War, and beyond. A member of the original generation of Marine reconnaissance men, Steele's story offers a rare firsthand look at war, survival, and service across decades of American military history. Ashly McGlone is an investigative journalist and the creator of Reconnaissance Man. As Steele's granddaughter, she pairs reporting, narration, and historical context with family connection to bring his extraordinary story to life with depth and care. Find Reconnaissance Man and Ashly McGlone Online: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reconnaissanceman/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashlyreports/ X: https://x.com/ReconManPod X: https://x.com/AshlyReports 🎙️ Host — AJ Pasciuti AJ Pasciuti is a ...
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