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Biography - Ronald R Ortensie

Ray currently serves as the Command Curator for the Air Force’s HQ Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. In his current position he is responsible for working museum and historical property issues at the command level along with working with field museums within the command. Previously he served as Staff Historian at HQ Air Education & Training Command at Randolph AFB and as the historian for a flying training group at Moody AFB in Georgia where he deployed to Southwest Asia in support of Operation’s ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM, documenting an expeditionary wing’s participation in those stated operations. Prior to working with the Air Force, Ray worked as a medical photographer for Purdue University’s Veterinary Medicine School, a military photojournalist for the Air Force and a graphic designer for the pure-bred swine publication Seedstock EDGE for the National Swine Registry.

Ray received his Bachelor (2000) and Masters (2004) degrees from Purdue University where he studied 19th-century American history with a focus on religion within the Confederate Army and guerrilla/irregular combat during the Civil War. Ray’s master these dealt with guerrilla warfare in Kentucky and the responses to it by the Federal army, the Federal government, the Kentucky state government, and citizens of the state during the Civil War. Ray has reviewed numerous books for various publications along with a number of encyclopedia entries for ABC-CLIO works.

Ray currently teaches hybrid classes for Northeast Lakeside Community College in San Antonio and is on the faculty at Palo Alto Community College in San Antonio as well.

Ray currently living all young kids dreams by living in an RV park while the family is between residences while making the transition from San Antonio to the Dayton area while his wife Robin and their two son’s Nate (2 1/2 years old) and Reide (eight weeks old) live with family in the Indianapolis area.