FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) - Saribelle Rodriguez gets nervous whenever the telephone rings.

In the past few days, three members of her husband's unit - the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment - have been killed in Iraq, and she is terrified he may be next.

"It's hard, the separation," Rodriguez, 30, said Tuesday. "Every time you think someone is calling you to tell you your husband has died."

On Tuesday, two of Sgt. Daniel Rodriguez' regiment comrades were gunned down at a traffic checkpoint in Fallujah, where support for Saddam Hussein runs deep.

Nine other American troops were injured and two Iraqis were killed in the gunfight.

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Seven soldiers from Fort Carson have been killed in Iraq since May 1. Five other soldiers and Marines with Colorado ties have been killed.

Rodriguez said she talks to her husband, an aviation mechanic, about five minutes once a week to give him news about their 2-year-old and 2-month-old children. She has no idea when he's coming home.

Staff Sgt. LaVell Dishmon, a Fort Carson reservist for 19 years, said the deaths of fellow soldiers hit home.

"In the Army, I feel like it's a brotherhood and we're close," he said.

The 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment is a highly mobile force that conducts reconnaissance, security, offensive and defensive operations. It has about 5,200 soldiers and 320 armored vehicles.
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Army Pvt. David Evans Jr. of Buffalo, N.Y., killed in a weekend accident in Iraq, lives on in the son he never got to meet. Family and friends say at 3 1/2-months, David Kevonta Evans is the spitting image of his father.

"He looks like his twin," said the baby's mother, Tamara Douglas. "He's even going to be pigeon-toed like David."

The child was born Feb. 8, a month after Evans, 18, made his last visit home on leave. Evans was killed Sunday in an explosion at a munitions site he was guarding in southern Iraq.

"I wish he could be here to see him, to hold him and to tell him how much he loved him," Douglas told The Buffalo News. "He wanted to see his son so bad."

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