Rebuilding Warriors

Brandon Tennery is a 23 year old Army Sergeant, son, and brother.

He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in December of 1989, then moved to League City, Texas shortly after birth. After graduating from Job Corps in San Marcos Texas when he was 16, he was taken in by his pastor and their family in Dallas, Texas. That's when he decided he was ready to fulfill his childhood dream and become a soldier in the United States Army.

In March of 2008 he went to Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training at Ft. Sill Oklahoma. Upon his Graduation he was assigned to Colorado Springs with the 2/77^th Field Artillery Battalion 4^th Infantry Division 4^th Brigade Combat team.

In March 2009, he received orders for his first combat tour to Eastern Afghanistan. After receiving mild injuries on his first tour his Unit returned to Colorado in June of 2010. After being promoted to Sergeant on his 21st birthday in December of 2010, he came down on Orders to Report to FT. Bliss, Texas in El Paso in May of 2011. After getting to his new Unit 3rd Brigade 1st Armored Division 4^th Battalion 1st Field Artillery Regiment, he was told to get ready to deploy.

In September of 2011 he received his orders to return for his second Combat tour to Afghanistan, for which he was now in a leadership position and ready to exceed expectations. After several months he deployed to a small Combat Outpost in the mountains getting attacked was almost daily. Then the day of April 11^th, 2012 happened.

They started taking small arms fire from all directions about 11:00 am. Sgt. Tennery ran to the top of a hill to get the high ground. Following him soon after were his comrades, however they were a little late.

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When they found him he was unconscious and having multiple seizures. He was thrown and slightly burned from two RPG blasts and a 107 rocket. He also would suffer from a severe Traumatic Brain Injury, slight loss of vision and hearing, balance problems and close to twenty internal injuries.

His fellow soldiers and the medic did an amazing job getting him strapped to a litter and off the hill while still under fire. He was then Medvaced from the field and first sent to FOB Shank, Afghanistan where his blood pressure rose to 261/158. That's also where he was intubated before being sent to Bagram air field, then to Germany for a week before finally reaching his final destination at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. There he continued his rehab, got off the cane he was using and was reassigned to The Warrior Transition Battalion at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

He started competing in adaptive sports while in the WTU and won some medals and ribbons. He then started playing baseball again at the beginning of 2013 for the Army Purple Heart Baseball team. The played at Angels Stadium In Anaheim, California facing the Marine PHBB team and beating them 20 to 9. He now lives in Pueblo, Colorado with his dog Beau and plans to start flight school to become a helicopter pilot and eventually own his own business.

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Jeff Anderson
CEO/Founder, Rebuilding Warriors