• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to secondary sidebar
Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper

Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper

Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always

May 15th, 2025
  • Home
  • Services
    • Advertising
  • News
    • Whats Happening?
    • Featured
    • Christian Times
      • Ministries List
    • Health
    • Education
    • Finance & Business
    • Lifestyles
      • Our History
    • Arts and Entertainment
    • Obituaries
  • Editorials
  • Contact Us
  • Digital Editions
  • Tweet
  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email

Army Reserve officer Deshauna Barber crowned Miss USA 2016

June 9, 2016

 

20512436-standardAn Army Reserve officer and IT analyst from the District of Columbia has been crowned Miss USA 2016 after mounting a strong defense of women in combat roles in the military.
Deshauna Barber, a 26-year-old from the nation’s capital, gave the answer during the interview section of the pageant in Las Vegas on Sunday, June 5, 2016.
When asked by judge Joe Zee whether the Pentagon’s decision to open up all combat roles to women had “put political correctness over our military’s ability to perform,” 1st Lt. Barber responded:
“As a woman in the United States Army, I think it was an amazing job by our government to allow women to integrate into every branch of the military.” She continued: “We are just as tough as men. As a commander of my unit, I’m powerful, I am dedicated and it is important that we recognize that gender does not limit us in the United States.”
Hopes to spotlight
veterans’ issues
The daughter of a retired Army master sergeant, Barber was commissioned as a quartermaster officer in 2011 and serves as a logistics commander for the 988th Quartermaster Detachment Unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, according to her bio on the pageant’s website.
She works full-time as an IT analyst for the U.S. Department of Commerce, it said.
Barber hopes to use her profile as Miss USA to highlight the health issues veterans face when they return from combat, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, her bio said.
Steve Harvey appears
Barber won the pageant ahead of first runner-up Chelsea Hardin, Miss Hawaii, and second runner-up Emanii Davis, Miss Georgia.
She will now go on to represent the United States in the Miss Universe pageant.
Miss USA organizers also addressed a prominent mishap from the December Miss Universe pageant, when host Steve Harvey flubbed the announcement of the winner and was widely ridiculed for it.
This time, he appeared in a video poking fun at his mistake.

  • Tweet
  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email

Related Articles:

  • South Africa wins Miss Universe with talk of leadership for women
    South Africa wins Miss Universe with talk of leadership for women
  • Adm. Michelle Howard becomes first four-star woman in Navy history
    Adm. Michelle Howard becomes first four-star woman in Navy history
  • Miss America Nia Imani Franklin is happy she didn’t have to endure swimsuit competition
    Miss America Nia Imani Franklin is happy she didn’t have to endure swimsuit competition
  • History_First_Combat_By_Black_Pilots_Speech_SF_still_624x352
    Veteran's Day: The History of African Americans in the Military
  • 636028848472166701-AFP-543486032-75247582
    Pentagon lifts ban on transgender troops
  • Crown history! Miss USA, Miss Teen USA & Miss America are all black women
    Crown history! Miss USA, Miss Teen USA & Miss America are all black women

Filed Under: National and Local News

Primary Sidebar

Latest Issue PDF

Secondary Sidebar

Privacy Policy | Copyright © 2025 · HT Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.