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.

Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. -- The 96th Medical Group's laboratory provided the first-ever human-blood sample of a spirochete bacteria, known to cause tick-borne relapsing fever to be cultured at the Centers for Disease Control.

Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. -- In 1963, Beatlemania was only beginning. Troll dolls were the rage.  Gas was only 30 cents per gallon, and for less than a dollar you could go see Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra at the box office.  In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I have a dream speech," and President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

Hurlburt Field, Fla. - Military operations require flexibility and they aren’t always in ideal locations. When needed, there is a team of civil engineers who are able to build and tear down small temporary bases in a short period of time for special operations forces in austere locations. 

Hurlburt Field, Fla. -- At 8 a.m., Jan. 16, 1991, Iraqi forces were firmly planted in Kuwait after the UN Security Council deadline for their withdrawal had expired.

Al Udeid Air Base, (AFNS) -- The KC-135 Stratotanker fleet at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, flew more than 14,700 sorties in 2015, accumulating 103,419 combat hours in support of Operations Inherent Resolve and Freedom’s Sentinel.

Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska (AFNS) -- "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back." -- Maximus

Hurlburt Field, Fla. -- The 1st Special Operations Force Support Squadron new temporary lodging facility (TLF) is now open after a ribbon cutting ceremony Dec. 18, 2015. Col. Sean Farrell, commander of the 1st Special Operations Wing, hosted the event for airmen and their families.

Hurlburt Field, Fla., -- As the sun sets over the flight line and most units have gone home for the night, maintenance airmen are attending roll call and issued their tools before making their way out to aircraft to begin their shift.