First, note that the Navigation Control is the little 3-horizontal-lined device in the upper left corner, labelled "Nav Menu". Click it whenever you want to change pages. The selection buttons in the Nav Menu are red if they have been recently updated, such as new photos, or green if no recent changes have been made. Some of the buttons are blue if they are not yet "valid" until the next RAYunion. These are details which presently contain old information from the 2025 RAYunion that will be updated as we develop new information for the next (2028?) RAYunion.
This website is intended to support RAYunions in the future.

Stay tuned to the USS RAY Facebook group and watch your e‑mails (and here) for more information as it becomes available.
PLEASE help us keep your e‑mail and phone contact information up‑to‑date.

^NEW!UPDATED 10/19/2025.^NEW!
The 2025 RAYunion in Charleston, SC, from October 8 to October 12, 2025, was a great success!
VIEW photos of the 2025 RAYunion HERE!
Special thanks to the 2025 RAYunion Planning Committee for the success of the entire event! The 2025 RAYunion Planning Committee included Jeff & Angel Angleberger, Jim & Marie Huyge, Dwight Lowdermilk, Tim Hayes, Mike Hylton and George Koucheravy.
We expect to schedule the next RAYunion in about 3 years (2028).

If anyone has copies NEM, MUC, NUC, etc. awards, please forward them to
webmaster@rayunion.net,
even if all they say is
"For completion of a mission of extreme significance to the United States"
or
"For doing the stuff you did when you didn't go where you were doing the stuff you didn't do (even though you really did.)"
See the few we have HERE.

A link to a YouTube video displaying maps of the USS RAY WAR PATROLS in World War II at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6jISqxO4oA has been added to the RAYunion Links tab.

The USS Ray (SSN-653) was commissioned April 12, 1967, and decommissioned March 16, 1993. The first USS Ray (SS‑271) was commissioned July 27, 1943, and decommissioned February 12, 1947. It was recommissioned as a radar picket submarine on August 13, 1952 and decommissioned September 30, 1958. Welcome to all who manned RAY or helped RAY be the best. A special welcome to the families who stood by us.