Name:
Army Staff Sgt. Carletta S. Davis
Age:
34
From:
Anchorage, Alaska;
Assigned to
the 10th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y.;
Incident:
Army Staff Sgt. Carletta S. Davis died Nov. 5 in Tal Al-Dahab, Iraq, of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near her Humvee during combat operations. Also killed were Staff Sgt. John D. Linde, Sgt. Derek T. Stenroos and Pfc. Adam J. Muller.
Died:
November
05, 2007
Alaskans among Fort Drum soldiers killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Staff Sgt. Carletta Davis’s mother said her daughter seemed to sense something might go wrong this time when she was deployed again to Iraq.
Before she deployed, “She visited people she didn’t normally visit, I think because she knew something,” said Lavada Napier.
Davis, 34, who grew up in Anchorage, was one of two Alaskans killed Nov. 5 when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee in Tal Al-Dahab, Iraq.
Sgt. Derek Stenroos, 24, of North Pole, was also killed in the attack, along with two other soldiers with Fort Drum’s 1st Brigade Co
Occupation
the 10th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y.;