"He'd already shot his weapon, so he had the time to spend," Randles said. "So I asked his chain of command and they said, 'Sure, take him.' So we went and sat down in the pine straw and dialed up Alabama and there were his family and his extended family in the delivery room and he got to be right there with them."



"I'm thankful for a chain of command that allows us to afford that to the soldiers because they certainly wouldn't have the opportunity without it."