European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 112007 stars and stripes pages Schweinfurt based gis killed by red in Iraq by Allison Batdorff stars and stripes three soldiers from Schwein Furt Germany 1st battalion 18th infantry regiment killed in Baghdad by a Roadside bomb were identified tuesday by the Pentagon capt Anthony Palermo or pc Ryan Dallam and pvt Dami an Lopez Rodriguez were on a combat operation Friday when the bomb detonated near their vehicle according to the defense department the men had deployed to Iraq in september with Headquarters and Headquarters company of the unit from the 2nd brigade combat team 1st infantry Divi Sion said 1st and spokeswoman master sgt Nancy Morrison Palermo 26 came from a big military family and was born to be a Soldier Cousin Vianka Feli Ciano told the Boston Herald pal Ermo was also two weeks from be coming father she said capt Kristy Pine his wife is stationed in Wurzburg Germany and is soon due to deliver their first child the newspaper said Anthony was a genuinely Beau Hohenfels based i killed by Roadside bomb in Afghanistan by Allison Batdorff stars and stripes a Soldier from the Hohenfels German based 1st battalion 4th infantry regiment has died of wounds suffered in a Roadside bombing this weekend in Eastern Afghanistan the Pentagon said tues Day army pc Conor g Masterson 21 died sat urday after a bomb exploded near his Masterson vehicle x according to a defense department press release his Mother told the associated press that master son was a medic and was on a Tro when he was killed the family who lives in master sons Hometown of Woodbury Minn got the news on easter morning she said he was always so excited As he Learned each new medical procedure and body his Mother told the associated press he was really proud and we were really proud of him Masterson had been married less than a year to his wife Lorena and planned to attend College to study Medicine his Mother said he was a comedian and it didst matter what was happen ing he made you laugh she said Masterson joined army in 2005 and was assigned to 1st Bat Talion 4th infantry regiment in Hohenfels Germany during its six month deployment in Afghani Stan the battalion is working with a romanian battalion in the inter National Security assistance Force according to joint multinational training command spokes Man maj Eric Bloom a memorial service to be held at Hohenfels is still in the plan Ning stages Bloom said email Allison Batdorff at House plans hearings on Tillman Lynch cases san us House committee announced tuesday it would hold hearings on misleading military statements that followed the Friendly fire death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan and the Rescue of pfc Jessica Lynch in Iraq the House committee on oversight and government Reform said an april 24 hearing would be part of its investigation into whether there was a strategy to mislead the Public the plan comes two weeks after the Pentagon released the findings of its own investigations into Tillmans death and three years after he was killed the committee has been quietly investigating the Case since then and decided to add Lynch to the scope of its probe it will examine Why inaccurate accounts of these two incidents were disseminated the sources and motivations for the accounts and whether the appropriate administration officials have been held accountable the panel said on its web site from the associated press correction an april 2 Story about the Battlefield emphasis on stopping bleeding should have said that a product qui clot works by absorbing water in the blood leaving platelets and clotting fac tors highly concentrated in the wound to form a clot according to the manufacturer Tifful soul his Cousin Meredith Griffin told the Globe he was everybody favorite even though he Al ways had a strict and militant Atti tude he was fair and unselfish putting every ones needs first before his own she said pc Ryan Dallam 24 also was from a military family and planned to return to his Home state of Oklahoma next week on leave his father told the associated press Dallam was born in nor Man and attended High school on an american Indian reservation in Arizona he said Dallam joined the army in the Spring of 2005 two years after his father Scott retired from a 23year army Ca reer he said we talked about it several times Scott Dallam told the a i told him my concerns that Iraq was probably where he was going to end up he made a commitment that he wanted to serve and it didst really matter when youre Young it Doest seem to matter you always think youre invincible Rodriguez 19 was from Tuc son Ariz no other biographical information was available at press time on tuesday a memorial ceremony for pal Ermo Dallam and Rodriguez is tentatively scheduled for the april 19 at the Ledward Barracks Chapel in Schweinfurt Morrison said in an email email Allison Batdorff at Tom of the us army Gen Peter Schoomaker right and co Robert Pricone inspect the troop formation during the army change of command ceremony tuesday at fort myer a Gen George w Casey or was named the 36th chief of staff of the army during the event Casey replaces Schoomaker As army chief of staff in ceremony by Lisa Burgess stars and stripes Arlington a army chief of staff Gen Peter j Schoomaker handed the reins of the ser vice Over to Gen George w Casey or on tuesday in a Pom filled ceremony at fort myer a the change of responsibility ceremony also marked the second retirement of schoo maker from the army after spending More than 30 years mostly in the special operations Community schoo maker had left the service to become a rancher in Wyo Ming when the defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld asked him to return to Active duty in 2003 to head the Force throughout his tenure As the army 35th chief of staff Schoomaker often referred to his presence during the failed iranian hostage Rescue Mission in 1980 which Cost the lives of eight special forces soldiers Casey in a Farewell message to the troops sent army wide april 9 Schoomaker reminded sol Diers that he keeps a photo of the carnage from that Mission to remind me of the grief and failure of that Mission and the commit sent survivors of that operation made to a different future having now been in this army for almost four decades and having seen the army my father served in for 32 years before that i can Tell you in no Uncertain terms that today Battle hardened army does in fact reflect the different future we envisioned Schoomaker wrote Casey served in Iraq As the senior coalition com Mander in Iraq from june 2004 to february 2007 before being nominated As the 36th army chief of staff prior to that he served As vice chief of staff of the army director of the joint staff and com Mander of the 1st armoured division from july 1999 to july 2001 the Quality of our men and women in uniform is the Best i have seen in my 36 years in service Casey said during tuesdays ceremony they epitomize what is Best about America email Lisa Burgess at