[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 17]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 23260-23261]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              RECOGNIZING LIEUTENANT COLONEL GARY WOODWARD

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                          HON. DAVID L. HOBSON

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 19, 2002

  Mr. HOBSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of my 
constituent, Lieutenant Colonel Gary Woodward, U.S. Air Force Reserve, 
who will be retiring on November 30th of this year.
  Col. Woodward began his service as a member of the Ohio Air National 
Guard, USAF Security Police (Air Police) and was a graduate of the 
first class of the ANG Academy of Military Sciences (NCO Academy) at 
the McGhee-Tyson Air Force Base in Knoxville, Tennessee.
  He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in 1972, and named Commander 
of the 178th Security Police unit at Springfield, Ohio. In 1974, Lt. 
Woodward's unit was mobilized to provide humanitarian support to the 
Xenia tornado disaster. Under his leadership, this unit was awarded the 
Air Force's Outstanding Unit Award, recognized for its excellent 
support to the Ministry of Defense in the United Kingdom concerning a 
number of successful European deployments, and also was recognized for 
its outstanding inspection ratings.
  In 1993, Lt. Col. Woodward was promoted to his present grade and 
awarded the USAF

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Commendation Medal. In 1995, he was recognized for his professionalism 
and outstanding support to the Space and Missile Center, Los Angeles 
AFB, and three years later the U.S. Secretary of Defense acknowledged 
Lt. Col. Woodward's leadership as the Project Officer for the National 
Defense Conference at Wright-Patterson AFB. Identified as mission 
critical and extremely valuable to the USAF, Lt. Col. Woodward was 
selected and approved to continue service beyond his retirement date.
  During all of this, Lt. Col. Woodward had a successful, 25-year 
banking career and served on the Fairborn City Council. He and his 
wife, Diana, still reside in Fairborn, and are the proud parents of two 
daughters, Elizabeth and Melody.
  As a former member of the Ohio Air National Guard, I am proud to come 
to the floor to recognize Lt. Col. Gary Woodward's service to his 
nation, his community and his family, and congratulate him on the 
occasion of his retirement.

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