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- In case you missed this story, an Afghan girl who was lifted to safety while still in her mother’s womb, will not only have a gripping story to tell about her dramatic delivery; she also has a high-flying name to match.
- The baby girl’s parents named their daughter “Reach,” after the call sign on the Air Force C-17 aircraft plane that her parents evacuated on as they fled the Taliban in Kabul last weekend.
- General Tod D. Wolters, the commander of U.S. European Command, said that the infant is in good health after the inflight delivery, in addition to two other babies of Afghan refugees that were born at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. "All three babies are good," Wolters said.
- He added, “So that child’s name will forever be Reach, and if you can well imagine, being an Air Force fighter pilot, it’s my dream to watch that young child called Reach grow up and be a U.S. citizen and fly United States Air Force fighters in our Air Force.”
- Aided by medics, the mother delivered baby Reach in the cargo bay of the aircraft. A group of female evacuees surrounded the mother and held up their shawls to protect her privacy, Brymer said. “It was a beautiful sight to see.”
- Army Capt. Erin Brymer, a nurse at the military’s nearby Landstuhl Regional Medical Center said her team is anticipating more pregnant women arriving on evacuation flights.