Army announces first ever female PowerPoint Ranger
FORT BENNING, Ga. — Capt. Lynnette Diogo made history this week when she became the Army’s first ever female PowerPoint Ranger. Diogo, a West Point graduate, is currently the Assistant S-3 for the 2-29th Infantry Battalion.
Diogo managed to endure grueling hours and late nights crafting hundreds of PowerPoint slides for commanders’ update briefs, yearly training calendar briefs, CONOPS, and battalion training slides. In addition to learning basic soldier skills such as embedding photographs and graphs into slides, Diogo mastered such advanced tactics as establishing animations and timing slide transitions.
“There were days I just wanted to quit because I didn’t think I could go on anymore.” said Diogo. “I was exhausted, but I learned to dig deep and find something inside myself I never knew I had. I knew my fellow female soldiers were watching and counting on me. I just couldn’t bear to let them down.”
Appearing haggard and having lost close to 35 pounds, Diogo staggered onto the briefin…
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