Active duty soldier crowned Miss Colorado missing Iraq rotation to compete for Miss America title
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Under normal circumstances, Army Spc. Maura Spence-Carroll – who was crowned Miss Colorado 2021 earlier this year – would be getting herself ready for an upcoming deployment overseas.
"I volunteered and then my unit said 'No you're going to have to go to Miss America' – this is before I was Miss Colorado… so they didn't put me on the manifest," she told Fox News. Spence-Carroll, 21, an intelligence analyst with the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division, will stay behind with other active-duty soldiers in her unit as she prepares for December's Miss America pageant in Connecticut. The Katy, Texas native has been competing in pageants for years. She joined the Army in 2018 after one semester of college when she realized the cost and accumulation of debt was not worth the pursuit of a degree. One day, an online Army advertisement got her attention and she enlisted after speaking with a friend who had served.
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