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Specialist Maura Spence-Carroll with her crown. (Army\/Specialist Matthew Marsilia)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Specialist Maura Spence-Carroll was crowned Miss Colorado this year. Her unit is scheduled to deploy to Iraq; however, she will remain at Fort Carson as a part of rear detachment as she prepares to compete for Miss America. As Miss Colorado, she wants to address mental health within the military and veteran communities.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/span><\/p>\n

The unfortunate death of her sister was paired the following year with the passing of her grandfather, Bob Boyett. He was an Air Force veteran who worked in military intelligence at the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado Springs and was involved in at least four plane crashes and worked with the CIA after his military service, Spence-Carroll said.<\/p>\n

Along with her sister, they are her primary motivation, she said. Her grandfather instilled in her a sense of service and a strong work ethic, she said.<\/p>\n

Spence-Carroll’s entry into the world of beauty pageants began when she was 13 at the urging of her mother, who spent years as a professional singer in a Celtic folk-rock band and taught her daughter classical music.<\/p>\n

“I guess just being a weird kid in general, I would loiter on the playground,” she said. “She thought it would really be a good idea to do something to help boost my confidence. When she first told me I could compete, I was so excited. I was thrilled.”<\/p>\n

“The thing it helped me realize is that there is no one idea of beauty,” she added. “We tend to think of beauty as you’re either pretty or you’re not and there isn’t a binary in this world. Being involved in this organization and doing what I do there’s going to be days where people think I’m beautiful and others don’t. I shouldn’t change myself or change the way that I think or feel or present myself because that’s not being authentic.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has a detailed account<\/a> of the sequence of events that lead Specialist Maura Spence to the Army as well as to her current aim to compete in the Miss America pageant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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