Meet the first woman from Hawaii to become a US Army Ranger

Ranger School is the U.S. Army’s premier leadership builder. Only the strongest soldiers survive the grueling physical and mental demands that start from the get-go.

“For my company alone, we started out with 120 people. We dropped to I think 85, just in the first four days,” 2nd Lt. Allene “Ally” Somera-Zyko said.

She just graduated from Ranger School at Fort Benning, Georgia, becoming the first woman born and raised in Hawaii to become a U.S. Army Ranger.

“I think I was more excited about going home than getting my tab at that point. I was like, ‘This place sucks,’” she said.