The woman was sitting on a shawl spread out on the cargo bay floor near the doors of the aircraft, said Brymer, an Army labor and delivery nurse assigned to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.

Four Afghan women held up shawls to protect her privacy, she said.

“It looked just like the picture in the news,” she said. “It was a plane full of 300 people sitting on the ground.”…

Brymer did her best to communicate with the woman, who didn’t understand English.

“I was just trying to make eye contact with her and let her know that everything was OK, that she can deliver this baby safely and that we were ready for her,” she said.

The team had towels, a cord clamp, scissors and emergency resuscitation equipment for the baby, just in case.

But the delivery turned out to be “picture perfect,” Brymer said.