Paratriathlete and Veteran, Tom Lee Gears Up for TriRock Philadelphia Triathlon

Tom Lee, born and raised in Hawaii, is a retired Staff Sergeant for the United States Army. He joined the military in 1995. In 2007 a deep buried IED near Camp Taji, Iraq took his right leg above the knee. After a short stint in Germany, he was transferred to the Center for the Intrepid in San Antonio, Texas. It didn’t take long until he was integrated back into the community again and his every day life was normalized. Lee adds, “I came to the realization I was no longer in my military shell and my tra