She in an AF funded graduate degree program at Harvard. If you a top graduate from the AF Academy, you can be selected for such a program as your first assignment. Not sure how you swing participating beauty pageants while in grad school but I guess someone in the AF hierarchy thinks its a good idea.
Pretty easy when The AF Academy holds a Pagent:
In 2023, Marsh was crowned Miss Academy 2023, a pageant for women attending the United States Air Force Academy.[4] As Miss Academy, she was eligible for the Miss Colorado 2023 pageant, which she went on to win in May 2023