Deployment causes family hardship, baby beats clock
Jamie Steffen, wife of Staff Sgt. Phillip Steffen of the 434th Civil Engineering Squadron at Grissom Air Reserve Base, Indiana, holds her daughter, Nyla Steffen’s, hand just hours after she was born July 21, 2014, in Lutheran Hospital in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Steffen, the assistant noncommissioned officer in charge of the structures shop at the 434th CES, arrived home from deployment 25 hours after his daughter was born. (Courtesy photo)