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Combat Story Podcast Transcripts

AJ Pasciuti · 235 episodes with transcripts

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.

Spoken has transcripts of 235 Combat Story episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from September 28, 2026.

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  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
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        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Latest Combat Story transcripts

The Manhunt for Saddam Hussein | Lt. Col. Steve Russell (Ret.)

September 28, 2026

Steve Russell (0:02)

We had a tiger by the tail, and I thought, okay, if this is going to be a centers of the insurgency, we're going to get ahead of it.

Who are these people? Who targeted us, surveilled us, put together a combined arms, small arms fight with RPGs, automatic weapons, and rifle fire?

AJ Pasciuti (0:44)

Welcome to Combat Story. I'm AJ Pasciuti, a retired Marine, Force recon, scout sniper, and Marine gunner with 21 years of service, multiple combat tours, and a lifetime of lessons learned in the arena itself. On this show, I sit down with warriors from every frontline to uncover what combat truly feels like and how…

This is Combat Story.

Steve Russell (2:11)

2006

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