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". These are details which presently contain old information from the 2022 RAYunion that will be updated as we develop new information for the next RAYunion.
This site 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.

^NEW!UPDATED 06/19/2024.^NEW!
Well the place and date is set for the next meeting of our shipmates! The next RAYunion will be held in Charleston, SC on October 9‑13, 2025. It will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 4831 Tanger Outlet Blvd., North Charleston, SC 29418. 1‑866‑358‑6255.
We have blocks of rooms reserved from Thursday the 9th thru Monday the 13th. Room rates for the RAYunion are $157 per night with two free breakfast buffets included, per room, per night. Attendees need to contact the hotel directly to make their reservation, just ensure they know it is for the RAYunion.
Lots of more details to be worked out. The banquet will be held on Saturday, October 11, 2025. We will be planning outings and events and we will let the crew know as soon as we know.

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.

Photos from the 2022 RAYunion are posted 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.

UPDATED 01/29/2022.
101 new photos have been added to the 2005 RAYunion page HERE. The added photos include a tribute to our Engineer from 1974 to 1977, James "Gator" McGowan who went on Eternal Patrol 07/08/2000. There are also newly discovered photos from Greg "Chew" Howson and Tim "Knappy" Patterson. Additional thanks to Don "DW" Gentry for archiving these photos for many years.

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.