How Marines Master Communications Through Radio

Hi. My name is Jake Ditt. I'm a communications officer in the Marine Corps. Today I'm gonna talk a little bit about single channel radios or two way radios and, how they're used on, Camp Pendleton and across the room for as a whole. At the very lowest levels, you'll see these types of radios used as inter squad radios or ISRs. It's gonna allow infantry squads, or various other types of units to, to communicate with each other, take objectives, give and receive orders, prevent friendly fire, And generally, it's gonna allow them to coordinate so that everybody's on the same page. Moving up from there, you're gonna see company battalion and up levels, single channel radio is still used quite often, up to a combat operation center you're still gonna see single channel radio or two way radios use. It'll be a different type of radio generally. But that technology is used at every level. You're also gonna see these types of radios used in convoys for coordination, safety, and in combat for tactical coordination and things like that. You'll see them used in the air wing as well. Most, obviously, it's gonna be used for for safety of flight. It's gonna be used for air traffic control. It's also gonna be used for coordination within flights. And between other flights and with ground units as well. So if you have a ground unit that needs a Medevac or CASVac, they're gonna request that over single channel radio. And it's also gonna be used with ground units to get munitions on target. So ground units will actually have a lot of times specialized marines, Ford Air controllers, JTax, that gonna use single channel radio to talk with that pilot and help get them on target where they need to be to, to drop whatever kind of ammunition that that aircraft have to carry. It's a really complicated process, actually, that requires a ton of coordination both for the safety of ground units for pilots and for those strikes to be successful as well. Specifically on Camp Pennington, We use single channel radio for range safety as well. All bases that have live fire ranges will have some sort of range safety radio network. This is gonna be used to coordinate units moving to and from live fire ranges. This is a really important radio infrastructure and basically, it's to ensure as much safety as possible as marines take part in inherently dangerous training activities. In my experience, I I have worked on the Camp pendleton, range safety infrastructure, some. And, you know, it's a full time job making sure that that radio infrastructure is maintained, works properly. Allows Marines to get to the rangers. They need to get to request it for it to go hot, meaning start firing, requested for a cold, meaning they're done firing for the day, and entry and exit to those ranges to make sure across the entire base, every marine that is currently shooting, is doing so in the safest way possible. So that's a little bit about single channel radio. We also use a lot of multi channel radio, and data communications as well. Of, like, single channel radio is kind of the the backbone of, tactical radio communications in the Marine Corps. Alright. Thanks a lot.