Afghan parents have named their baby girl after the call sign of the US Air Force plane where she was delivered.
The news was revealed in a press conference on Wednesday, August 25, after the baby was delivered on a C-17 cargo plane as her parents fled Afghanistan amid the Taliban takeover, People reports.
General Tod D. Wolters, the commander of US European Command, said that the baby is doing well after being delivered on the flight and so too are another two babies who were born at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.
"All three babies are good," Wolters said.
He went on to explain that he's "had further conversations" with the first child's parents, who finally welcomed their daughter after the in-flight labor at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
Watch a full news report about the incredible delivery below:"They named the little girl Reach," Wolters said. "And they did so because the call sign of the C-17 aircraft that flew them from Qatar to Ramstein was Reach."
"So that child's name will forever be Reach," he continued. "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 US citizen and fly United States Air Force fighters in our Air Force. Over."
The baby's mother left Afghanistan on the plane last Saturday (August 21) when she went into labor mid-flight before progressing into high labor as the plane made its way to Germany, causing her blood pressure to drop to a dangerous level.
The air pressure was increased by a decrease in altitude from the plane's commander, which managed to "stabilize and help save the mother's life," a US Air Force representative revealed.
She went into the final stages of labor after landing and was rushed to a makeshift delivery room in the cargo bay by the 86th Medical Group.
The US's evacuation deadline from Afghanistan is August 31, and people hoping to leave the country are now in a race against time to escape before then.
BBC News reports that the US will continue evacuations until "the last moment".
