Las Vegas: An 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.
As per EXIN Times, Deshauna Barber’s
—a 26-year-old from the nation’s capital — answer during the interview section
of the pageant in Las Vegas on Sunday sealed her victory.
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.”
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. 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.
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