Ray L. Rider

Preferred Name: Ray
Date of Birth: April 11, 1938
Highest Military Grade: 0-6 – Colonel
Hometown: Sunnyside, CA

Ray Rider flew the F-100 from 4/1965-10/1965 with the 4515th Combat Crew Training Squadron out of Luke AFB, AZ. From 11/1965-12/1968 he flew the Hun with the 77th Tactical Fighter Squadron out of RAF Wethersfeld, UK; then from 1/1969-4/1969 with an F-100 Fighter Weapons Squadron out of Nellis, and from 4/1969 -4/1970with the 35th Tactical Fighter Wing out of Phan Rang, Vietnam.