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The Craft of Radio Reconnaissance

Marine Pulse
Gary Sampson and Ed Haines
June 22, 2026

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Episode Notes:

Gary Sampson sits down with Ed Haines, a retired Marine Master Sergeant who came up beside him in the radio reconnaissance platoon at First Radio Battalion in Hawaii. They get into what it took to earn trust in radio recon, where knowing the doctrine and the radios cold mattered as much as running hard, and why the toughest schools taught the most through failure.

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