Reach, the baby who was born on an evacuation flight 0:39
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A girl born on a US military evacuation flight heading to Ramstein Air Base in Germany was named Reach after the aircraft's call sign, according to the US top general in Europe.
"We have had more conversations with the mother and father of the baby," General Tod Wolters, commander of the US European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, said in a briefing with journalists at the Pentagon.
"They called the girl Reach. And they did it because the call sign on the C-17 plane that took them from Qatar to Ramstein was Reach."
Reach's parents were flying from a base of operations in Qatar after fleeing Afghanistan following the Taliban's takeover of Kabul.
Medical support personnel help an Afghan mother, whose identity has been digitally hidden at the source, with her family off a US Air Force C-17 transport plane moments after giving birth. a girl aboard the aircraft as it touched down at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on Saturday.
The US Air Mobility Command tweeted details of the delivery on Sunday, saying the mother had gone into labor and "started having complications" before the flight landed.
"The aircraft commander decided to descend in altitude to increase the air pressure in the aircraft, which helped stabilize and save the life of the mother," read a tweet from the official account of the US Air Mobility Command, noting that medical personnel from the 86th Air Force Medical Group came on board to attend the delivery once the plane landed.
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"Upon landing, the 86th MDG airmen came on board and gave birth to the girl in the cargo compartment of the aircraft," read another tweet from the account.
Reach and his mother were taken to a nearby medical center, where the Air Mobility Command reported that they were in good condition.
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"As you can well imagine, being an Air Force fighter pilot, it is my dream to see that young girl named Reach grow up to be an American citizen and fly United States Air Force fighters in our Air Force," Wolters joked. .
Speaking to CNN on Monday, the nurse who delivered Reach said she "expected the worst, hoping for the best."
"When I evaluated the patient, we were past the point of no return. That baby was going to be born before we could transfer her to another facility," said US Army Capt. Erin Brymer, a registered nurse at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.
Asked when she realized things were going to be okay for the baby and the mother, Brymer said, "When the baby came out screaming! And we were able to put her directly on the mother's breast and get her to breastfeed right away I said to myself, 'Okay, we're good here.'
The pilot mistakenly announced that the baby was a boy, and Brymer said he corrected it.
"I mean it's a girl," the pilot said then.
About 1,500 people remain in Afghanistan who could be Americans, according to Blinken
The Pentagon announced today that approximately 88,000 people have left Afghanistan since the evacuation began, but thousands more are still trying to leave the country before the scheduled troop withdrawal ends next week.
CNN's Brad Lendon, Atika Shubert, James Briggs and Jack Guy contributed to this report.
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