Ray Lock

Air Vice Marshal Ray Lock, CBE is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer who served as commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College from 2010 to 2012.

Ray Lock
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Air Force
Years of service	1977–2012
Rank	Air Vice Marshal
Commands held	RAF Lyneham
Battles/wars	Gulf War Iraq War
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire

RAF career

Educated at Glyn Grammar School and the University of Bristol, Lock joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1977.[1] He flew combat missions against Iraq during the Gulf War in 1991.[1][2] He was appointed commander of the RAF detachment at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait in 2000 and station commander at RAF Lyneham in 2002.[1] In 2003 he reopened the International Airport at Basra as part of Operation Telic.[1] He went on to be deputy assistant chief of staff at Permanent Joint Headquarters at Northwood in 2004, air operations director at the Combined Air Operations Centre in Al Udeid in Qatar in 2005 and assistant chief of staff at RAF Strike Command in 2006.[1] He was made commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College in 2010.[1]

Corporate career

Lock became chief executive of the Forces in Mind Trust in December 2012.[3] He lives in Churchdown in Gloucestershire.[4]

References

1. Biography at Defence Academy Archived 14 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
2. Ex-pilot takes over at College Swindon Advertiser, 19 July 2010
3. Air Vice-Marshal Ray Lock Appointed New Chief Executive Of The Forces In Mind Trust Confederation of Services Charities, 30 January 2013
4. Air Vice Marshal is Her Majesty's Guest Clifton Diocese