John I. Pray

Brigadier General (ret) John I. Pray, Jr. is the Senior Vice President of Entertainment/Programs for the United Service Organizations where he is responsible for leading the USO’s world-famous entertainment activities as well as a variety of other efforts that lift the spirits of hundreds of thousands of service members and their families every year.

After retiring from the United State Air Force (USAF) in December 2007, Pray served as the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council until January 2009 and then as Executive Vice President for the Systems Proposal and Engineering Company until joining the USO in July 2009. While in the USAF, Pray served in a number of key staff and command positions that included: the Director of the White House Situation Room; Commander of the 89th Airlift Wing at Andrews AFB, MD; Commander of the 436th Airlift Wing at Dover AFB, MD; the Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Security Council; Commander of the 305th Operations Group at McGuire AFB, NJ; Commander of the 8th Airlift Squadron at McChord AFB, WA and Executive Officer to the Commander, United States Special Operations Command at MacDill AFB, FL. Pray is a Command Pilot with over 6,000 flying hours in numerous mobility and special operations aircraft.