BEN GHILOUF, Tunisia – When U.S. Army 1st Lt. Ana Camacho Tibaquira deployed to Tunisia for exercise African Lion 2024 (AL24) with the Maryland National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment, she assumed that her promotion to captain would simply be a rank swap. U.S. Army Maj. Sean Gramm, Battalion Executive Officer and Sgt. 1st Class Regina Rizzo, Personnel NCOIC, had another plan in mind.
On the evening of April 30, Battalion Commander, Lt. Col. Alexi Franklin, and others from the staff, gathered with Camacho Tibaquira on the distinguished visitors stage that overlooks the exercise area in Ben Ghilouf. There, Camacho Tibaquira made history by becoming the first 1-175th IN member to be promoted in Tunisia.
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