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Adolfo C Carballo
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Name: Army Spc. Adolfo C. Carballo
Age: 20
From: Houston
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 21st Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Incident: Army Spc. Adolfo C. Carballo was killed April 10 when shrapnel struck him in Baghdad.
Died: April 10, 2004
Hours after wife spoke with soldier, he was dead
Associated Press
Age: 20
From: Houston
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 21st Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Incident: Army Spc. Adolfo C. Carballo was killed April 10 when shrapnel struck him in Baghdad.
Died: April 10, 2004
Hours after wife spoke with soldier, he was dead
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Hours before he was killed in combat, Army Spc. Adolfo Cesar Carballo called his wife on her cell phone and told her not to worry. He was eating dinner after having just returned from a mission.
The next time Beatriz Carballo heard news from Iraq, her husband was dead — a victim of shrapnel when a rocket-propelled grenade hit his Humvee south of Baghdad.
The 20-year-old soldier was the 14th person from the Houston area killed while serving in Iraq, and he was among at least seven military personnel with Texas ties who died in fierce combat last week.
Carballo, like some of the dead, was stationed at Fort Hood. He was assigned to the Army’s 1st...
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1st Battalion, 21st Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Incident
Army Spc. Adolfo C. Carballo was killed April 10 when shrapnel struck him in Baghdad.
Prayers & Messages
Adolfo C Carballo
2011-07-31
Thank you, Army Spc. Adolfo C. Carballo for your untilmate scarifice to our great country and to our freedoms which so many take for granted.
Adolfo C Carballo
2008-04-09
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.