An Army vet and a man who survived a coma found friendship through science. Now they're...

Around the time Dreyvon McCray was relearning how to walk and talk and live in a world in which a kid can be beaten into a coma over a cell phone, Terin D’amico was jumping out of airplanes and pondering a life after the military.

In 2016, their paths crossed in the cafeteria at Governors State University.