SERIOUS PRESSURE

LtCol (ret) Andrew "Woody" Woodrow enlisted in the Air Force in 1982 and reported for his first of four assignments at the Physiological Support Division (PSD) in 1983. During a 33-year active-duty career, Woodrow was fortunate to serve in ten assignments including three overseas tours as an aerospace and operational physiologist. As if by some grand plan, he navigated through PSD first as an Airman and Non-commissioned Officer, then as a biomedical sciences corps officer, operations flight commander, and eventually serving as Commander of the Physiological Support Squadron... His professional experiences in operational physiology span myriad test and evaluation of the human capacity for environmental stress; from depths of 165 feet of sea water in hyperbaric (dive) chambers to altitudes over 75,000 feet in hypobaric (altitude) chambers and hundreds of aerial flights in the U-2 and fourteen other airframes.