Via Free Beacon:
After ten flights over two days, U.S. Army combat engineer Francois Clerfe made it home to California from his station in Iraq to witness the birth of his first child on Jan. 1.
Clerfe’s station explained he used a special policy in his battalion to be able to return to his laboring wife Natalia Svistunova, Fox News reported.
“From Kuwait, to Turkey, to Turkey to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Baltimore, Baltimore to Atlanta,” Clerfe told WCVB as he began to recount his trek from Iraq back to the west coast.
Clerfe and Svistunova’s baby girl, who wasn’t due until Jan. 9, was the first child born at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula in 2018. Baby Julia was born at 9:53 a.m. on New Year’s Day.