75th Ranger Regiment Recce Platoon Leader | Dustin Ward (throwback episode)
The Team House
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 149 minutes
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Dustin Ward served with the 75th Ranger Regiment with the Recce section and worked on special programs in Afghanistan.
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| 0:00.0 | The Team House with your host, Jack Murphy and David Park. |
| 0:13.1 | Welcome to episode 201 of The Team House. I'm Jack Murphy here with David Park. |
| 0:18.9 | And our guest on tonight's show is Dustin Ward. |
| 0:22.1 | Dustin served in the infantry as a sniper and in the long range reconnaissance teams |
| 0:28.2 | and then went over to the Ranger Regiment and served as a platoon sergeant in the battalion |
| 0:33.4 | Recky section amongst other positions that you had over there. |
| 0:37.2 | Dustin, thank you for coming |
| 0:38.7 | out here to godless New York City. I appreciate me. Thanks for the invite. Fly it up here, man. It's |
| 0:46.0 | awesome to have you here in person. Thank you. So, look, we're going to start at the beginning. So |
| 0:51.5 | tell us about, you know, kind of like how you grew up and sort of like what it was the sort of like directed you towards the military. |
| 0:57.7 | What's your origin story? |
| 0:59.5 | My origin story. |
| 1:00.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.5 | So I was born to a military family. |
| 1:05.1 | My dad was in the Air Force of 22 years. |
| 1:07.9 | My mom was a typical stay at home. |
| 1:10.4 | Mom, military spouse. I have a brother as well as five |
| 1:13.4 | years younger. Moved around a lot. It was born in Mississippi. And then we pretty much ended up in |
| 1:21.0 | North Dakota for the majority of my life. My dad worked on B-52s. So my not North Dakota, |
| 1:27.2 | a great place. |
| 1:28.6 | There's a chance to go. |
| 1:30.9 | Towards the end of that, |
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