09-16-2006
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County Executive
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
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Member Since: Feb 2005
Location: California
Posts: 382
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Re: The Iraq Page, RIP soldiers
John A. Carroll 
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Centre Daily -- PONCA CITY, Okla. - An Army soldier from Pittsburgh who died in Iraq last week signed up for the military in Oklahoma years ago while he was drifting through a number of states, his mother said Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Defense said Sgt. John A. Carroll, 26, died Wednesday in Ramadi from small arms fire during a dismounted security patrol.
Maj. Wayne Marotto, with the 1st Armored Division in Wiesbaden, Germany, said Carroll and the other members of his unit were providing security and searching for enemy fighters and weapons.
"They're looking for the bad guys, that's for sure," said Marotto, who described the Ramadi area as lawless. "They've gotten into some pretty tough fighting there."
Carroll died after being shot in the leg, Marotto said.
Carroll's mother, Dawn Petrakovitz of Pittsburgh, said her son was a Pittsburgh native who left the East Coast after high school to find work in the late 1990s and traveled through several states, including Oklahoma. He enlisted in Ponca City.
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Rest in peace John.
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