To say that Miss Kansas is unlike any other -one would probably roll their eyes; a beauty queen unlike any other has already gotten old. With makeup and nice hair, one would even say beauty queens all even kind of look the same.

One can say that Miss Kansas looks like your average beauty queen. Until you look closer. The pageant contestant Theresa Vail's resume includes archery, M16 sharpshooter, and a double degree in chemistry and Chinese, and army sergeant. She knows how to hunt and skin deer, learned how to sing opera overnight (for her Miss Kansas talent portion) and loves the taste of stewed squirrels. She also has two very large tattoos.

She is the second Miss America contestant to be enlisted in the military following 2007's Miss Ohio, and the first contestant to have exposed tattoos, both of which she chose not to cover up during the swimsuit round. One tattoo is of the Serenity Prayer, and a military medical insignia on one shoulder. Although she had been given the choice to cover up the tattoos, she opted not to, pointing out that her platform was, other than female empowerment, was to overcome stereotypes. "What a hypocrite I would be if I covered up the ink...I am who I am, tattoos and all."

She joined the pageant after one of her commanding officers made a recommendation that she should join. Sgt. Vail then recognized it as an opportunity to reach out to a nation of young girls, saying that she had been a victim of bullying when she had been a little girl, before falling in love with the outdoors after being introduced to hunting by her father.

What will she do after the Miss America pageant, win or lose? The vivacious sergeant is keen on becoming an army dentist, letting it known to all of us that despite all that pageant glamor, you can never get the Army out of anyone.