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Accreting black holes and neutron stars, known as X-ray binaries, create very complex environments. One of the components of these X-ray binaries are relativistic jets, which still have many open questions regarding, e.g., their formation mechanism and what properties of the X-ray binary drive their behavior. Neutron star jets are even less understood than those of black holes primarily due to their intrinsically fainter nature, and also seem to be more diverse. Here I will present recent high sensitivity radio results of a number of neutron star X-ray binaries, including anomalous radio emission behavior during soft accretion states, and polarization and spectral properties of very high accretion rate systems. We have detected significant radio jet polarization for the first time in any neutron star X-ray binary and observed unusual spectral properties. These results point toward a rich range of jet behaviors of neutron star X-ray binaries, and promise exciting investigations in the future.