Our twenty-seventh recipient, Major General Ryan S. Rideout completed the AMP at Harvard Business School in May 2019.  “Chick” currently serves as the Director, Manpower Management Division of Manpower and Reserve Affairs in Quantico, VA.  His previous operational assignments include Deputy Commanding General, I Marine Expeditionary Force in Camp Pendleton, CA; Director, Military Advisor Group-Iraq, Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve based in Baghdad, Iraq; Commanding Officer of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) based at Camp Lejeune, NC; Commanding Officer of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 467, and Current Operations Officer for the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) in Cherry Point, NC; Assistant Operations Officer for Marine Aircraft Group 29, and numerous squadron assignments with HMLA-269 in New River, NC.  His staff assignments include Chief of Staff, Marine Corps Forces Command and Fleet Marine Officer for U.S. Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk, VA; Director of Operations and Marine Corps Element Commander for Joint Interagency Task Force South in Key West, FL; Director of Aviation Training Systems for 2nd MAW; Executive Officer of The Basic School, Rotary Wing Monitor, and Assistant Aviation Lieutenant Colonels Monitor with Aviation Officer Assignments Branch in Quantico, VA.  As an AH-1W Cobra pilot, Chick deployed multiple times with the 22nd MEU to the U.S. Navy’s Sixth Fleet and served two tours with HMLA-269 in Al Anbar, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.  Under his command, the 24th MEU conducted Foreign Disaster Relief operations in Haiti following Hurricane Matthew, deployed to the Navy’s Fifth and Sixth Fleets to support Operations Inherent Resolve, Eclipse, Odyssey Resolve, and Yukon Scepter, and provided Defense Support to Civil Authorities in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria.  Chick enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve in 1989 and was later commissioned in 1993.  He received his undergraduate degree from Ball State University in Muncie, IN, and earned Masters’ degrees from both the Marine Corps Command and Staff College and the Marine Corps War College in Quantico, VA.

Chick and his wife, Jackie, have two children.