Ralph Ryan

Ralph Ryan was born into a military family and extensively traveled the United States and Europe all his life. After graduating from Berlin American High School in 1972, he attended Antelope Valley college and acquired an AA degree in Forestry while fighting fires on Engines and initial attack helicopter crew 7-Charlie on the Angeles National Forest. In 1977, he was accepted into the California Smokejumper program and jumped from Redding, California until 1985. In 1986, he joined the BLM smokejumpers …