Army's new leadership strategy: Replace PowerPoint with thoughtful discussion

The cynic in me bets that this concept is being briefed across the Army.....using PowerPoint slides.

Mandatory training WITHOUT PowerPoint? Officers would have massive strokes all around. JO's wouldn't have to insert the biggest "Bang" or coolest "slide transitions", to get high marks on their OER's. And all those PowerPoint Rangers? What are you going to do with them? Put em back on the line? All kinds of meetings would get shorter being there isn't 5milion slides to go through, that repeat the same things the first three explained in detail. CSM/SGM's will be pissed being now they'll have to insert the sound effects themselves. So get ready for the "Pew, Pew, Pew", or "the whistling slide transitions that simulate artillery rounds", or the required "BOOMS". Get ready for the ARCOM's with "P" for PowerPoint devices, ASI's with PP as the identifier, the required PowerPoint tabs, and soon a BOLO badge that marks you as "expert, marksman, or Sharpshooter" in your Jedi levels of PowerPoint.
There will be riots in the streets from unemployed Microsoft workers who were designers of PowerPoint, RIF'd officers who only knew how to make the baddest slides this side of the Atlantic, Westborough Baptist will hold signs that say "God hates PowerPoint", and I might actually agree with them at that point, and damn near EVERY currently serving officer would be out there holding #PPLM (PowerPoint Lives Matter) signs.
On the enlisted side everyone from E8 on down will finally rejoice in the knowledge there won't be a 750 TB HD dedicated JUST to mandatory training they'd have to look over every year before giving it. There will be parties, skrippers, kegs, lots of guns, Jack Daniels, Budweiser, BBQ's, Redskins Cheelerleaders, and TONS of shenanigans to go round.

Thoughtful conversation over boring, redundant powerpoint slides, being taught by a monotone NCO/Officer - I'm ashamed that it's 2016 and within the last year or so, the Army has "just" started to move to this format.

I'm glad the Army is progressing into the right direction - but the fact it took years (maybe decades) of Officers/NCOs alike, bitching about the redundancy of slides and the check the block attitude, that we are now just coming to this. Sigh.../stepping of my soapbox.