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General John W. “Jay” Raymond

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General Jay Raymond (ret.) is a thirty-eight-year veteran of US Space Force and US Air Force. He has commanded national security space units at every level of command, from squadron to combatant command. He is recognized as a global leader in all sectors of space operations, including national security, intelligence, commercial, civil, and international space.

Raymond was raised in a military family and, after graduating from Clemson University in 1984, was commissioned into the US Air Force. Throughout his career, he has served in numerous command, joint, and service staff jobs in nuclear, space, cyber, and air operations.

He has commanded the Fifth Space Surveillance Squadron, the 30th Operations Group, the 21st Space Wing, the 14th Air Force, Joint Forces Space Component Command, and Air Force Space Command, and served as the first commander of the reestablished US Space Command, our nation’s newest combatant command. He has deployed as Central Command’s director of space forces, supporting operations in both Afghanistan and Iraq. I

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John H. Raymond, as the second president of Vassar, led the young college through its formative years and was largely responsible for the formation of Vassar’s system of education.

Born in New York City in 1814, Raymond received a classical education. A long and significant relationship with education, in which he was a student, teacher, and administrative leader, began when he entered Columbia University at 14. Though he received numerous distinctions for his studies, Raymond was expelled his junior year for “causing disorder in class”. Raymond describes his conduct at Columbia in his autobiography: “The spirit of insubordination, an evil spirit, a foul fiend, in whom there is no trace of manliness or generosity, took full possession of me.” Raymond graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1832 and moved on to the New Haven School of Law.

A sermon that Raymond heard during this time, however, changed the course of his life. Dr. Leonard Bacon’s sermon asked, “Is religion a delusion or is it not?” Raymond’s consideration of this bold question led him to the Hamilton Bap

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John W. Raymond

1st U.S. Space Force chief of space operations

This article is about the U.S. Space Force general. For others of the same name, see John Raymond.

John William Raymond (born April 30, 1962)^[1] is a retired United States Space Forcegeneral who served as the first chief of space operations from 2019 to 2022. The first guardian, he served as commander of the United States Space Command from 2019 to 2020.

Raised in a military family, Raymond was commissioned into the United States Air Force in 1984 after graduating from Clemson University. A career missile and space operations officer, he has commanded the 5th Space Surveillance Squadron, 30th Operations Group, Fourteenth Air Force, Joint Force Space Component Command, and Air Force Space Command. He has been deployed to serve in the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War.

In 2016, Raymond assumed command of the Air Force Space Command and, in 2019, assumed additional duties as unified combatant command commander following the reestablishment of the U.S. Space Command. When the U.S. Space Force was est