“That’s once I realized this isn’t a youngsters’s sport. Individuals get damage.”
On this episode of Fight Story, AJ sits down with former Marine Scout Sniper Alexander Lemons, a Bronze Star recipient who deployed throughout the Iraq Warfare and later co-authored Warfare Physique: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Fashionable Warfare.
This dialog explores what fight actually looks like for younger Marines coming into the struggle in Iraq — the chaos, the uncertainty, and the second when the fact of struggle hits. But it surely additionally goes deeper, trying on the long-term penalties of recent warfare, from poisonous publicity and burn pits to the bodily and psychological toll that usually seems years later.
That is Half 1 of a two-part dialog with Alex Lemons. On this episode we cowl his path into the Marine Corps, the early Iraq expertise, and the muse of the story behind Warfare Physique. In Half 2, we dive deeper into his time as a sniper and the lengthy struggle after coming dwelling.
Notice: This episode was filmed in December and performs out as a real dialog between AJ and Alex quite than a conventional interview, which supplies it a extra reflective tone than typical Fight Story episodes.
This dialog goes far past typical struggle tales.
Alex describes:
• The second incoming artillery made him understand struggle was actual
• What the Iraq invasion truly felt like on the bottom
• The chaos and confusion younger Marines confronted throughout the push to Baghdad
• Why many veterans wrestle with poisonous publicity, PTSD, and long-term sickness after struggle
• The deeper duty veterans carry lengthy after the preventing ends
🎙️ Visitor Info — Alexander Lemons
Alexander Lemons is a former U.S. Marine Scout Sniper and Bronze Star recipient who served a number of fight deployments throughout the Iraq Warfare, together with Nasiriyah and Fallujah. He’s the co-author of Warfare Physique: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Fashionable Warfare, a strong have a look at the hidden bodily and psychological prices of fight and what struggle leaves behind lengthy after the taking pictures stops.
📖 Warfare Physique:
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324066330
📰 Featured Article:
🎙️ Host Info — AJ Pasciuti
AJ Pasciuti is a retired Marine Drive Recon Scout Sniper and Infantry Weapons Officer (Marine Gunner), creator of Darkhorse: Harnessing Hidden Potential in Warfare and Life, and host of the Fight Story Podcast, the place veterans share sincere, unfiltered tales of service, management, and life after fight.
🔗 Discover AJ On-line:
📕 E book (Darkhorse): https://www.amazon.com/Darkhorse-Harnessing-Hidden-Potential-Life/dp/1400254973
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ajpasciuti/
📘 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelo-pasciuti/
🔗 Web site: https://www.ajpasciuti.com/
🎧 Featured Fight Story Episodes with AJ
👉 Fight Story Podcast – Half 1 (USMC Sniper & Drive Recon)
– Battle of Fallujah | Capturing w/ Chris Kyle | American Sniper | AJ Pasciuti
👉 Fight Story Podcast – Half 2 (Sniper vs Sniper Battle)
– Killing the Enemy’s Most Deadly Sniper | Drive Recon | AJ Pasciuti
📺 Extra Options & Media
👉 City Valor Podcast Characteristic:
👉 DVIDS – Infantry Marine Course Characteristic:
https://www.nationalguard.mil/Management/Joint-Employees/Comptroller/Innovation/?dvpTag=imc&videoid=790758
Chapters
00:00 Incoming artillery in Iraq
02:40 Introducing Marine Sniper Alexander Lemons
07:15 Becoming a member of the Marines after 9/11
18:30 Iraq invasion and early fight experiences
32:40 Classes from fight management
51:00 The hidden bodily value of struggle
1:20:00 The chaos of recent warfare
2:09:00 Warfare Physique and life after the Marine Corps
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