[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 165 (Friday, November 6, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2742]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  ON THE OCCASION OF LIEUTENANT COMMANDER PIA S. WOODLEY'S RETIREMENT 
                      FROM THE UNITED STATES NAVY

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                         HON. KENDRICK B. MEEK

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, November 6, 2009

  Mr. MEEK of Florida. Madam Speaker, I would like to take this 
opportunity to recognize LCDR Pia Sermonia Woodley for her 20 years of 
service as a Medical Services Corps Officer as she retires on December 
4. She has had a long and admirable career, worthy of distinction and 
worthy of our gratitude.
  In the 20 years that Lieutenant Commander Woodley served as a Medical 
Services Officer, she deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, 
has been awarded numerous awards and citations, and served as the 
Special Assistant to the Director of Administration at the Naval 
Medical Center, Portsmouth.
  LCDR Pia Sermonia Woodley is a native Floridian born in Miami to Otis 
L. (deceased) and Beatrice S. Boston. A product of the inner city of 
Miami, she graduated from Miami Central Senior High School in 1984. She 
then attended Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida where she 
obtained her bachelors of science degree in Healthcare Management which 
in time led her to seek commissioning in the U.S. Navy. She earned her 
direct commission as a Medical Services Corps Officer in 1989.
  She was first assigned to the National Naval Medical Center in 
Bethesda, Maryland. As a Division Officer in the Staff Education and 
Training Department, she worked as an Instructor, a job she thoroughly 
enjoyed. Her next tour of duty took her to the Far East at the Naval 
Hospital in Okinawa, Japan. There she performed duties as a Division 
Officer in Materiels Management and then in Manpower. Selected to 
attend graduate school, she earned a Masters of Science degree in 
Management from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. 
She applied her graduate level skills to the Chief, Imaging and Medical 
Support Equipment Branch at the Department of Defense Medical 
Standardization Board in Frederick, Maryland. Following these tours she 
returned to Florida and served as the Head of the Materials Management 
Department at Naval Hospital Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Florida. 
Afterwards, she completed a third tour of duty in Maryland as the 
Program Manager of the Medical Support Directorate at the Naval Medical 
Logistics Command in Frederick, Maryland.
  While serving as the Special Assistant to the Director of 
Administration, she earned a mid-tour assignment as the Logistics 
Officer for the Surgeon General of the Multi-National Forces-Iraq in 
Baghdad, Iraq. She culminated her last year of service as the Assistant 
Department Head of the Human Resources Management Department.
  Her personal decorations include the Joint Meritorious Service Medal, 
Navy Commendation Medal with two gold stars, Navy and Marine Corps 
Achievement Medal, Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Meritorious Unit 
Commendation, National Defense Medal with Bronze Star, Iraqi Campaign 
Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and the Overseas Service 
Ribbon.
  Lieutenant Commander Woodley is honored to be the wife of Anthony Ray 
Woodley and the mother of Xavier Alan Woodley. She is the sister of 
Otis Alan Boston and Brandy Othea Sermon Boston and childhood friend of 
Sara Bellamy. And we thank her family for the strength and support they 
have provided here as she has provided the same for this Nation.

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