Army Staff Sgt. Carl W. Pascocello has been mobilized and activated for deployment overseas to a forward operating base in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Operation Iraqi Freedom is the official name given to military operations involving members of the U.S. armed forces and coalition forces participating in efforts to free and secure Iraq. Mission objectives focus on force protection, peacekeeping, stabilization, security and counter-insurgency operations as the Iraqi transitional governing bodies assume full sovereign powers to govern the peoples of Iraq.
Members from all branches of the U.S. military and multinational forces are also assisting in rebuilding Iraq’s economic and governmental infrastructure, and training and preparing Iraqi military and security forces to assume full authority and responsibility in defending and preserving Iraq’s sovereignty and independence as a democracy.
The staff sergeant is a civil affairs specialist normally assigned to the 411th Civil Affairs Battalion, in Danbury, Conn. He has served in the military for eight years.
He is the son of Robert F. and Joan M. Pascocello of Mockingbird Court, Hopewell Junction, N.Y.
Pascocello graduated in 1991 from Lakeland High School, Shrub Oak, N.Y., and received an associate degree in 2001 from Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
