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Senior Airman Austin Sondergard, 605th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, performs pre-flight checks on a KC-10 Extender at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. Oct. 10, 2022. Sondergard underwent brain surgery to remove an arteriovenous malformation, and later suffered losses to both memory, speech and motor skills due to a stroke. Now recovered, Sondergard returned to his duties as a crew chief and his hobby as an avid powerlifter. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Matt Porter)