Eglin Air Force Base -- As the F-35A Lightning II prepares to fly north in 2020, the Vermont Air National Guard sent an Airman here to become the first National Guardsman to graduate from the Joint Strike Fighter program's Intelligence Formal Training Unit.

Hurlburt Field, Fla. -- One unit on Hurlburt Field is responsible for training all weather airmen who are preparing to deploy with the skills to train and maintain existing weather systems all across the world and test and validate emerging weather-sensing technologies.

Hurlburt Field, Fla. -- John Townsend, the deputy division chief of special operations forces mobility requirements for Air Force Special Operations Command, retired after 42 years of service in and around AFSOC.

After setting aside her Air Force blues and security forces beret, Janine Hank crossed into police officer blue in 2007.  Eight years later, she's wearing and protecting the blue and was recently named the Air Force Security Forces’ Civilian of the Year.

The doctor leaned in and described to Robert Hyde what he might feel during his medical procedure. Shortly thereafter, she made a small incision to his inner thigh area. During the half-hour process, the surgical team watched the large, live-view X-ray machine as the doctor guided a long, thin, flexible green tube though Hyde's blood vessels until reaching the left side of his heart. She searched for the presence of problems with heart function that would prevent him from having corrective heart surgery.

Hurlburt Field, Fla. -- Air Commandos, past and present, and their families gathered to celebrate the service of two iconic aircraft, the AC-130H Spectre and the MC-130P Combat Shadow, during dedication ceremonies at the air park here, Feb. 2.

U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, are slated to perform a flyover of the 2016 Super Bowl at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., Feb. 7.

Captain Chris Cochrane spent nearly a month in a coma after suffering two strokes while deployed three years ago.

“I spent three and a half weeks in a coma. When I finally woke up, I couldn’t talk and I couldn’t move my right arm or leg,” Cochrane said. “I had to relearn to talk and relearn to walk. It took the better part of eight months before I left the hospital.”

The attack last July on a recruiting office in Tennessee has prompted the Air Force to remind commanders they may authorize qualified airmen to carry weapons on base while off duty and out of uniform. The Air Force on Wednesday said its review of "active-shooter incidents across the country" found that many ended without police intervention because someone present with a weapon stopped the shooter.