493: Chris Cappy's Grunt Perspective From The Front Lines of Iraq and Ukraine.
Jocko Podcast
Jocko DEFCOR Network
4.8 • 31.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 180 minutes
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Chris "Cappy" Capelluto is a former US Army infantryman, Iraq veteran, and YouTube content creator. He has gained recognition for his YouTube channel, where he focuses on defense analysis, military history, and geopolitical topics. Cappy also worked as a head of video for Task & Purpose before launching his own channel. He's known for his unique perspective, combining his military experience with a media background
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| 0:00.0 | This is Jocko podcast number 493 with Echo Charles and me Jocko Willink. Good evening. |
| 0:05.0 | Good evening. |
| 0:06.0 | Jonathan Andrew Pebbly call sign Mayhem was killed by a Russian drone strike while fighting in Ukraine according to a social media post from a American military expert and vlogger Chris Capoludo. |
| 0:22.9 | I've just been informed mayhem is KIA in Ukraine. |
| 0:26.8 | He died trying to save two of his buddies, said Capoludo, who had interviewed Pebbly earlier |
| 0:31.9 | this year for his YouTube channel. |
| 0:35.0 | From talking to him, he was a stand-up guy dedicated to the defense of Ukraine he was very |
| 0:40.0 | interested in the political side of the fight when I spoke to him meaning he was steadfastly |
| 0:45.5 | against Putin and his aggressive war pebbly was a U.S. Marine Corps and Iraq War veteran |
| 0:52.6 | and it served as a machine gunner with the Delta Knights unit in the International Legion under Ukraine's main intelligence directorate. |
| 1:04.1 | After leaving the Marines, Pebley worked at various jobs in different countries before arriving in Ukraine in August 24. |
| 1:13.6 | In an interview with Capoludo earlier this year, Pedley said that he had found his purpose in Ukraine. |
| 1:22.3 | Quote, this is what I'm supposed to be doing. |
| 1:25.2 | I feel at home again. |
| 1:27.3 | Everything makes a lot more sense, even though I don't speak the language. |
| 1:31.8 | Somehow, life makes more sense here than it did any time since I got out in 2009. |
| 1:39.9 | End quote. |
| 1:44.0 | And that right there is an excerpt from an article from the kiev post from just a few days ago |
| 1:50.6 | came out on 26 may 2025 reporting on yet another casualty in that vicious war and the quotes in the article are from an interview by Chris Capiludo, who's better known as Chris Cappi, who's a former National Guard, U.S. Army soldier, an Iraq war veteran who traveled to Ukraine as a journalist to get or try and get some ground truth on the war there. |
| 2:24.3 | And he took the risk associated with being a war zone to do that. |
| 2:29.3 | And he reported on his experiences and his lessons learned and what he saw and it's an honor to have him here |
| 2:36.4 | with us tonight to share all the lessons he's learned over the years not only in Ukraine but also |
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