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An airman has donated the utilities blouse off his back to the National History Museum of the U.S. Air Force in the hopes of memorializing Operation Allies Refuge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The blouse, which belonged to Airman 1st Class Nicolas Baron, was seen draped over a sleeping Afghan child aboard a C-17 Globemaster III in an iconic photo from the August Afghan refugee evacuations in Kabul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were more than 800 Afghan evacuees aboard the Aug. 15 flight when the photo was taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy blouse had fallen from where I\u2019d hung it up and as I was focusing on my tasks, a mother picked it up and laid it across her child to help keep them warm,\u201d Baron said in an Air Force press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was heartwarming to see.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Operation Allies Refuge was the United States\u2019 operation to evacuate its Afghan allies \u2014 including Afghan citizens who served alongside U.S. troops on the ground \u2014 from the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National History Museum of the U.S. Air Force, located on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, has been collecting items from the airlift operation even before the last U.S. troops had left the country, Stuart Lockhart, historian for the 305th Air Mobility Wing said in the press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the press release, they specifically requested Baron\u2019s blouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Airman First Class Nicholas Baron, 305th Air Mobility Wing Loadmaster, holds his blouse for the last time before donating it to the National History Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Oct. 12, 2021. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sergeant Shay Stuart)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny, I think any Airman would look at this and say, \u2018It\u2019s just a common OCP blouse\u2019, but it\u2019s the piece that is so recognizable,\u201d Lockhart said in the release. \u201cIn the early phases of this operation all that we were hearing on the news was how bad the situation was and then to have this touching image come out of just a simple humanitarian gesture, it made such an impression on our country and our world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baron, a loadmaster assigned to the 305th Air Mobility Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, said that he joined the Air Force with the goal of being part of something bigger and for him, being part of Operation Allies Refuge did just that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think the blouse gives a sense of hope no matter who they are or where they\u2019re from…It makes me feel proud [of our mission] and of the crew,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst is currently hosting thousands of displaced Afghan refugees in its temporary living quarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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