{"id":70496,"date":"2004-10-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-rotc-cadet-marches-to-miss-usa-contest\/"},"modified":"2004-10-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T00:00:00","slug":"uri-rotc-cadet-marches-to-miss-usa-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/10\/uri-rotc-cadet-marches-to-miss-usa-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 ROTC cadet marches to Miss USA contest"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tN. Kingstown beauty wins Miss Rhode Island\/USA title<\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. — October 26, 2004 — 溏心vlog免费B站 student Allison Paganetti can shoot, rappel, and strut. The 2005 newly named Miss Rhode Island USA will compete in the Miss USA contest next April. A kinesiology (exercise science) major, Paganetti is also a cadet in the Army Reserve Officers Training Program (ROTC) at 溏心vlog免费B站. She\u2019s as comfortable wearing a crown as she is carrying a rifle. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cEveryone at ROTC has been incredibly supportive. A few of the cadets even came to the (Rhode Island) pageant,\u201d says the 20-year-old cadet who was chosen over 40 other contestants to represent the Ocean State.

\n\u201cMy ROTC training has taught me to be determined, to set goals, and not to hold anything back. I bring that with me wherever I go, whether I\u2019m preparing for a pageant, in class or at field training.\u201d<\/p>\n

Becoming a cadet seemed a natural step to Paganetti whose grandfathers served in the armed forces. By the end of this year, she will have to pick a ROTC specialty and is leaning toward the medical corps because it\u2019s closet to her major.<\/p>\n


\nThe North Kingstown resident has competed in pageants since she was in sixth grade. Since she was a tomboy, she entered her first contest on a lark. When she was a finalist, she decided to enter more contests. Since then she has worn many crowns, including Miss U.S. Model\u2019s tiara last year.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cAll the hard work has paid off,\u201d she says of her recent Miss Rhode Island\/USA title. As Miss Rhode Island\/USA, she is currently engaged in charity and publicity work for numerous non-profit Rhode Island organizations. She is also preparing for the Miss USA pageant, which will be held in Baltimore. Donald Trump and NBC are its sponsors. A pageant consultant and a personal trainer are preparing her head to toe for the high-profile pageant.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThis is my retirement pageant,\u201d says the 溏心vlog免费B站 student who will be commissioned a second lieutenant when she graduates in a year and a half. Like her fellow cadets, she is concerned about the situation in Iraq. \u201cWe\u2019ll either be dealing with its aftermath or will be there ourselves,\u201d says the beauty queen.\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

N. Kingstown beauty wins Miss Rhode Island\/USA title KINGSTON, R.I. — October 26, 2004 — 溏心vlog免费B站 student Allison Paganetti can shoot, rappel, and strut. The 2005 newly named Miss Rhode Island USA will compete in the Miss USA contest next April. A kinesiology (exercise science) major, Paganetti is also a cadet in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}