SSG Alex Dillmann
Tampa, Florida

Army Staff Sergeant Alex Dillmann was on his second deployment when an IED blast left him paralyzed with catastrophic injuries while in the Province of Ghazni, Afghanistan on February 27, 2011. The Squad Leader in the first vehicle in a convoy, SSG Dillmann was on a night mission when his truck rolled over an IED, killing one soldier and leaving four others, including SSG Dillmann, with severe injuries. Suffering from multiple broken and fractured bones, TBI, lacerations, and internal injuries, Alex’s most serious injuries, burst fractures to the T3, T4, and L4 vertebrae, would result in paraplegia from the chest down. Life saving measure by his platoon enabled SSG Dillmann and the three other injured soldiers to be MEDEVACed to Bagram Air Base where they were stabilized for the trip to Landstuhl, Germany. SSG Dillmann arrived at Walter Reed Army Medical Center five days after the blast; heavily sedated, Alex would spend the first month of his recovery unaware of his condition before being transferred to James A. Haley Hospital in Tampa.
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