{"id":107816,"date":"2020-12-02T16:51:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T21:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107816"},"modified":"2020-12-02T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T22:25:44","slug":"airman-wins-alaska-beauty-paegant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107816","title":{"rendered":"Airman wins Alaska beauty pageant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_107817\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screenshot-2020-12-02-at-15.40.03.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107817\" class=\"size-large wp-image-107817\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screenshot-2020-12-02-at-15.40.03.png?resize=500%2C302&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screenshot-2020-12-02-at-15.40.03.png?resize=500%2C302&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screenshot-2020-12-02-at-15.40.03.png?resize=300%2C181&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screenshot-2020-12-02-at-15.40.03.png?w=748&amp;ssl=1 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SSgt Elizabeth McJannet-Bratton<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She&#8217;s an Alaska Air National Guard NCOIC for in-bound cargo, she&#8217;s beautiful, and she has huge&#8230;reserves of talent.<\/p>\n<p>Staff Sergeant McJannet-Bratton, pictured above, won the Miss Alaska Collegiate title recently. Her platform was &#8220;Combat boots to high heels&#8221; which &#8220;underscored her lifelong conviction that women can pursue careers in defense and in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, without sacrificing a sense of femininity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s apparently somewhere in the country that people are telling girls that they can&#8217;t be smart\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em>pretty.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Airman said the platform that she would stick with throughout her pageant career, the platform that would ultimately propel her to be crowned Miss Alaska Collegiate arose out of a conversation she had with her sister\u2019s friends growing up.<\/p>\n<p>One friend expressed interest in being a biologist. Another replied that science was no profession for aspiring young women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I don\u2019t want to do that, that\u2019s for nerds, not pretty girls,\u2019\u201d McJannet-Bratton recalled one of the friends saying during the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo!\u201d the Airman exclaimed. \u201cYou can do both of them. Do whatever you want and don\u2019t let some outside perception change what you want to do.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I look to be quite a bit older than Ms. McJannet-Bratton and never heard such a thing in my lifetime, but maybe Alaska is different. I happen to know many intelligent, educated females who are also physically attractive. Don&#8217;t see why they have to be mutually exclusive traits.\u00a0I digress. Her message is that you can do and be anything you want, which is a good message.<\/p>\n<p>Source;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ang.af.mil\/Media\/Article-Display\/Article\/2420610\/alaska-air-guardsman-advocates-for-military-stem-careers-for-women-in-pageant-w\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Air Force<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She&#8217;s an Alaska Air National Guard NCOIC for in-bound cargo, she&#8217;s beautiful, and she has huge&#8230;reserves of talent. Staff Sergeant McJannet-Bratton, pictured above, won the Miss Alaska Collegiate title recently. Her platform was &#8220;Combat boots to high heels&#8221; which &#8220;underscored her lifelong conviction that women can pursue careers in defense and in science, technology, engineering, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-air-national-guard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-s2Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}