U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan nominated 41 Alaskans to four of our country’s U.S. military service academies.<\/p>\n
“I am honored and humbled to put forward a truly outstanding batch of candidates from Alaska to our nation’s military service academies,” said Sen. Sullivan. “Each candidate represents the best and brightest of a new generation — highly educated young leaders with a deep desire to contribute their talents toward serving the communities and country they love. I am excited to see all that these Alaskans accomplish in the years ahead.”<\/p>\n
Sen. Sullivan’s Class of 2023 U.S. military service academy nominees are as follows:<\/p>\n
U.S. Air Force Academy<\/strong><\/p>\n • Maximus Addington, Anchorage<\/p>\n • Uriah Alenepi, Eagle River<\/p>\n • Theodore Handley, Homer<\/p>\n • Katheryn Kelsch, Palmer<\/p>\n • Ian Mikale Llaneza, Anchorage<\/p>\n • Madison Maroney, Anchorage<\/p>\n • Isabella Mollison, Eagle River<\/p>\n • Alexander O’Neill, Anchorage<\/p>\n • Clare Catherine Porter, Eagle River<\/p>\n • Sarah Price, North Pole<\/p>\n U.S. Merchant Marine Academy<\/strong><\/p>\n • Victoria Austin, Hoonah*<\/p>\n • Ethan Christiansen, Anchorage*<\/p>\n • Kyle Collins, Anchorage<\/p>\n • Collin Dyches, Eagle River*<\/p>\n • Cordell Johnson, Eagle River<\/p>\n • Dugan McNutt, Juneau<\/p>\n U.S. Military Academy<\/strong><\/p>\n • Victoria Austin, Hoonah*<\/p>\n • Kenneth Donnolly, JBER<\/p>\n • Joshua Gray, Fairbanks<\/p>\n • Teeana Nicholai, Palmer<\/p>\n • Christopher Orta, Anchorage<\/p>\n • Laelle Robison, Wasilla*<\/p>\n • Jacob Smith, Fairbanks<\/p>\n • Emi Soldwedel, Anchorage<\/p>\n • Michael Stoddard, Anchorage*<\/p>\n • Aaron Warner, Fort Wainwright<\/p>\n U.S. Naval Academy<\/strong><\/p>\n • Adonis Buzard, Juneau<\/p>\n • Ethan Christiansen, Anchorage*<\/p>\n • Jacob Christy, Anchorage<\/p>\n • Collin Dyches, Eagle River*<\/p>\n • Kevin Leach, Anchorage<\/p>\n • Mikaela Maroney, Anchorage<\/p>\n • Raymond Matiashowski, Juneau<\/p>\n • Eliot Merriner, Anchorage<\/p>\n • Aaron Motis, Nome<\/p>\n • Walter Nagel, Palmer<\/p>\n • Michael Prater, JBER<\/p>\n • Kiera Puls, Anchorage<\/p>\n • Wade Quigley, Girdwood<\/p>\n • Grace Reitzig, Wasilla<\/p>\n • Laelle Robison, Wasilla*<\/p>\n • Matthew Ross, Anchorage<\/p>\n • Isaac Ruse, Delta Junction<\/p>\n • Jackson Servant, Anchorage<\/p>\n • Cameron Sheldon, Anchorage<\/p>\n • Michael Stoddard, Anchorage*<\/p>\n *Received more than one nomination from Sullivan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 41 Alaskans were nominated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":42962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-42961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42961"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}