Army SGT Tyler Hall

Wasilla, AK

In 1999, Tyler Hall joined the Army after high school to carry on his family’s generational lineage of military service.

On August 22, 2003, Sergeant Hall was serving as a combat engineer with the 14th Combat Engineer Battalion, 555th Engineer Brigade attached to the 4th Infantry Division in Baji, Iraq, when his vehicle struck an improved explosive device (IED). He sustained severe head and face trauma, back injuries, a fractured hand and humerus, a punctured lung and severed aorta, loss of 12 teeth, bilateral hearing loss, below-the-knee amputation of his left leg, and severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).

He was flown to a trauma hospital in Iraq and transported to Landstuhl, Germany, before returning stateside to Walter Reed Medical Center, where he spent three months in a medically induced coma, requiring life-saving resuscitation eight times during his post-injury treatment. Tyler spent four years at Walter Reed Medical Center, relearning how to walk and perform daily activities.

Medically retired, Tyler is the Post Commander of AMVETS in Wasilla and enjoys hunting, fishing, hiking, and four-wheeling.

Originally from Alaska, Tyler is choosing to remain in his home state.

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