United States Marine Corps Scout Sniper

If you've ever wondered what combat actually feels like, not the headlines, not the movies, but what it was like to be there, this is Combat Story.

I'm A.J. Pasciutti, a retired Force Recon Marine and Scout Sniper, and this show is for anyone who wants to understand the human side of war through the people that lived it.

I sit down with veterans from across generations and specialties, special operators, pilots, infantry, law enforcement, and everyone in between, and we talk about the moments that stayed with them, the missions that went right and the ones that didn't, and what it costs during and after.

There's no script and no agenda.

And we had some others, Dennis Price, Colton Hill.

Cody Alford, Marsock Marine Force Recon, Marsock Scout Sniper, incredibly experienced snipers.

We brought some of the best guys we could to actually recreate those scenarios and test those shots.

We're going to play a clip of what you just described.

And of course, I got assigned to sniper.

So they sent us to, the HRT snipers go to Marine Corps Scout Sniper School right there at Quantico.

So some really good instruction there.

So I wasn't thrilled about being a sniper, but similar to being assigned to counterintelligence, I said I'm going to put my heart and soul into it, give it my best shot.

So when I got to BUD/S, I, I think I had a step up above a lot of people already because I had that time with the infantry units.

I got to, you know, I went to Scout Sniper School, uh, when I was there.

So I learned, um, a lot through going to these different courses while I was in the Marines as well because, um, I went to co- uh, Marine Combat Water Survival School.

I became an instructor.