Air Vice Marshal Air vice-marshal (AVM) is a two-star air officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force. The rank is also used by the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence and it is sometimes u ...

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

RAF career

Educated at

Glyn Grammar School Glyn School is a boys' comprehensive school, comprehensive secondary school – with a Mixed-sex education, co-educational sixth form – in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in the English county of Surrey. History The school was originally calle ...

and the University of Bristol, Lock joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1977.Biography at Defence Academy
He flew combat missions against Iraq during the Gulf War in 1991. He was appointed commander of the RAF detachment at

Ali Al Salem Air Base Ali Al Salem Air Base is a military air base situated in Kuwait, approximately 23 miles (37 km) from the Iraqi border, and roughly 15 km west of Al Jahra. The airfield is owned by the Government of Kuwait, and during Operation Souther ...

in Kuwait in 2000 and station commander at RAF Lyneham in 2002. In 2003 he reopened the International Airport at Basra as part of

Operation Telic Operation Telic (Op TELIC) was the codename under which all of the United Kingdom's military operations in Iraq were conducted between the start of the invasion of Iraq on 19 March 2003 and the withdrawal of the last remaining British forces on ...

. 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 Al Udeid Air Base ( ar, قاعدة العديد الجوية) is one of two military bases southwest of Doha, Qatar, also known as Abu Nakhlah Airport (). It houses the Qatar Emiri Air Force, United States Air Force, Royal Air Force, and othe ...

in Qatar in 2005 and assistant chief of staff at RAF Strike Command in 2006. He was made commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College in 2010.

Corporate career

Lock became chief executive of the Forces in Mind Trust in December 2012. He lives in

Churchdown Churchdown is a large village in Gloucestershire, England, situated between Gloucester and Cheltenham in the south of the Tewkesbury Borough. The village has two centres. The older (Brookfield or "village") centre is in Church Road near St A ...

in Gloucestershire.Air Vice Marshal is Her Majesty's Guest
Clifton Diocese

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lock, Ray Alumni of the University of Bristol Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Living people Royal Air Force air marshals Royal Air Force personnel of the Gulf War Royal Air Force personnel of the Iraq War Year of birth missing (living people)