Army Warrant Officer 1 Lashonda D. Pringle has graduated from the Warrant Officer Candidate School at Fort Rucker, Ala.

The course is designed to certify warrant officers as technically and tactically competent to serve as warrant officers in designated career specialties. The officer must successfully complete the course prior to being appointed to the rank of warrant officer one.

The primary focus of the school is military occupational specialty specific, augmented with common-core subjects as designated by a Task Site Selection Board and monitored by the Warrant Officer Career Center.
The course also prepares newly appointed officers for their first duty assignments and all subsequent assignments as warrant officers and chief warrant officers in the active Army, National Guard or Reserve.

Pringle has served in the military for 10 years.

She is the daughter of Racheal Ellis of Norfolk and Willie Jenkins Jr. of Suffolk.

The warrant officer is a 2002 graduate of Maury High School, Norfolk.