Army Guard Staff Sergeant Dreams of Olympic Break Dancing Glory

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Army Guard Staff Sergeant Dreams of Olympic Break Dancing Glory
Mil & Intel   

By Maggie BenZvi | June 10, 2021

There’s a new sport coming to the 2024 Olympics, and Brianna Pritchard is working hard to make it to Paris for the first Olympic break dancing — or just breaking — competition. But all that hard work currently takes place at the al-Asad Air Base in Iraq. Staff Sgt. Pritchard is an Alaska Army National Guard helicopter mechanic and flight instructor when she’s not one of the nation’s top competitive breakers.

Pritchard was drawn to the military as a child, because she saw serving her country as a higher purpose. She enlisted as military police as soon as she graduated high school but quickly realized it wasn’t the job for her. “I wanted to kick down doors and be GI Jane,” she said in a conversation with Coffee or Die Magazine. But it was 2011, and women were not allowed to be infantry at the time.

https://coffeeordie.com/national-guard-olympic-breaker/

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Military people have been participating in the Olympics (and other athletic competitions) for decades. Other than the specific event, which will be new in 2024, her possible future participation would be far from unusual.