Jodi Pyle-VanderSys

Master Sgt. Jodi Pyle-VanderSys has a 33-year career that spans across active-duty status in the Army, Colorado Army National Guard, and the Army Reserves. Throughout her career Pyle-VanderSys was stationed in throughout Europe and Middle East, including Iraq in 2003 and Afghanistan in 2010. Her most recent mobilization took her stateside to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, where she would find herself battling Murine Typhus that left her in the ICU for nearly a week. Toward the end of her recovery, she broke both of her arms. Pyle-VanderSys found herself not only being sent home to Colorado Springs, Colo., but also being reassigned to the Soldier Recovery Unit in Fort Carson. Being assigned to the SRU not only afforded her the chance to recover, but it also gave her the opportunity to find a new passion for adaptive sports. She now uses her experience to help the Soldiers around her to help them navigate their way, serving as their biggest cheerleader letting them know while they may think their broken now, it doesn’t mean they’ll be broken forever.