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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe folks at the 1st Cavalry Division PAO send us the story of 96-year-old Clinton Woodley who they honored on Friday. They tell me that when Clinton joined the storied division, they still had horses. From army.mil<\/a>;<\/p>\n “It is a distinct honor to have Sgt. Woodley, his daughter Ms. Shari Bankston and her family along with many friends and supporters with us today so we can present four awards that he earned more than 70 years ago, and are long overdue,” said Maj. Gen. Michael Bills, commanding general 1st Cavalry Division.<\/p>\n Woodley enlisted in the U.S. Army on July 31, 1940, and was initially stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, as a mounted cavalryman riding along the Texas-Mexico border.<\/p>\n A few years later, he continued to serve in the First Team as the division underwent a major change.<\/p>\n “Sgt. Woodley was there when the division turned in their horses to fight as dismounted cavalry during the Second World War, and he served with the distinction in the Pacific theater of operations from 1943-1945, participating in multiple campaigns to help end the war against Japan,” Bills said.<\/p>\n During the war, Woodley served as an infantryman in the campaigns to liberate the Bismarck Archipelago, Luzon, New Guinea, the Southern Philippines and the Admiralty Islands, before mustering out of the Army on Sept. 13, 1945.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n