{"id":121170,"date":"2021-12-31T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=121170"},"modified":"2021-12-30T21:02:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T02:02:15","slug":"ft-carson-soldier-who-missed-iraq-deployment-for-miss-america-contest-didnt-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=121170","title":{"rendered":"Ft Carson soldier who missed Iraq deployment for Miss America contest didn&#8217;t win"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_121171\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121171\" style=\"width: 416px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Maura-Spencer-Carroll.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-121171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Maura-Spencer-Carroll-416x333.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Maura-Spencer-Carroll-416x333.jpeg 416w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Maura-Spencer-Carroll-300x240.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Maura-Spencer-Carroll-768x614.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Maura-Spencer-Carroll.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Active duty 4th ID Specialist Maura Spencer-Carroll<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Spec Maura Spencer-Carroll was selected as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=116167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Miss Colorado several months back<\/a>. This meant she was to represent the state in the Miss America competition. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-9869869\/Soldier-miss-Iraq-deployment-compete-Miss-America.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Daily Mail had the story<\/a> (and several pictures) at the time. Unfortunately, there was a planned deployment for the young lady. However, her superiors allowed her out of the deployment to participate in the contest. I&#8217;m sure whomever had to take her place was thrilled to take one for the team, so she could advocate for mental health. A noble cause to be sure, but I wonder if the person who had to take over for her suffered any mental health issues due to the last minute, unexpected deployment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2021\/12\/30\/miss-colorado-is-an-active-duty-soldier-who-wants-to-end-veteran-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Military Times has the update<\/a>, post competition;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like every contestant, Miss Colorado wanted to be the next Miss America. Unlike the contestants, Miss Colorado is an active duty soldier in the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n<p>Spc. Maura Spence-Carroll is an all source intelligence analyst (35F) in 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, based out of Fort Carson, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Miss Alaska, Emma Broyles, won the title of Miss America 2021, but Spence-Carroll feels she still has much to accomplish for the remaining six months she holds the Miss Colorado crown.<\/p>\n<p>She was the first soldier to ever win Miss Colorado. If she had won the 2021 Miss America competition, Spence-Carroll would have been the first active duty soldier to do so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The irony of missing a deployment for a beauty pageant is missed on her apparently. They quote her,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy responsibility as a soldier comes first,\u201d Spence-Carroll told 5280 Magazine. \u201cWe\u2019re soldiers 24\/7, but thankfully, we do get time off throughout the day just like any civilian job.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On her return to Ft Carson she was invited to meet with the 4th ID commanding general, who coined her and gave her a copy of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hero-Code-Lessons-Learned-Lives\/dp\/1538719967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hero\u2019s Code<\/a>, <\/em>one of Adm. McRaven&#8217;s books. I know nothing of the book, but knowing the author, I&#8217;ll assume it&#8217;s about how awesome he is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spec Maura Spencer-Carroll was selected as Miss Colorado several months back. This meant she was to &hellip; <a title=\"Ft Carson soldier who missed Iraq deployment for Miss America contest didn&#8217;t win\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=121170\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ft Carson soldier who missed Iraq deployment for Miss America contest didn&#8217;t win<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-disposable-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121172,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121170\/revisions\/121172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}