In an interview with Las Vegas Sun, Barber gave some insight about her experience being stereotyped in the military stating, “If you’re an attractive woman…if you’re well put together, they assume, I guess they assume, that beauty is somewhat affiliated with weakness. It’s always cool to be in a rucksack march, and I have 40 pounds on my back, and there’s a 200-pound guy with the same 40 pounds on his back, and I’m a mile ahead. Those types of things really empower me.” You go girl!