Brigadier General Ronald Pierce Woodson was commissioned an Infantry Officer upon graduation from Officer Candidate School, 20 March 1964. His first duty assignment was as Nuclear Weapons Officer, Company I, U.S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia. | His subsequent duty assignments include: Company Commander, Co A, The Infantry School Brigade, Fort Benning, Georgia; Break in Service, USAR, St. Louis, Missouri; Bn S-1, Headquarters’s 1-149th In (M) Kentucky ARNG, Barbourville, Kentucky; Company Commander, 438th MP Co Kentucky ARNG, Somerset, Kentucky; Supply Officer, HHD Kentucky STARC, Frankfort, Kentucky; Sr TAC Officer (OCS), Kentucky Military Academy, Fort Knox, Kentucky; Company Commander, CMB SPT CO, 1-149th In (M), Somerset, Kentucky; BN S-3, Headquarters’s 1-149th In (M), Barbourville, Kentucky; Student, Inf Officer Adv Course, Fort Benning, Georgia; BN Commander, Headquarters’s 1-149th In (M), Barbourville, Kentucky; BDE S-3, Headquarters’s 149th SEP AR BDE, Louisville, Kentucky; Deputy BDE Commander, Headquarters’s 149th SEP AR BDE, Louisville, Kentucky; Brigade Commander, Headquarters’s 149th BDE 35th ID (M), Louisville, Kentucky; Director, Plans, OPN, TNG, Headquarters’s Kentucky ARNG, Frankfort, Kentucky; Assistant Division Commander(s), Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Property Valuation Administrator, Pulaski County, Somerset, Kentucky. | Military schools attended include: United States Army Infantry Advanced Course, Command and General Staff College, United States Air Force Air Ground Operations School, Communications Command, JINTACCS Training, Pre-Command Course, Reserve Components National Security Course, Air Assault Course. | Brigadier General Woodson's military awards include: Legion of Merit, Army Reserve Component Overseas Training Ribbon W/3 Device, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Component Achievement Medal w/4 Oak Leaf Clusters, Army Service Ribbon, Armed Forces Reserve Medal with 10 Years Device, Army Commendation Medal w/ Oak Leaf Cluster, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Assault Badge.