Based: Schweinfurt, Germany
1st Battalion, 77th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: July 1, 2007
Ta'meem, Iraq
Married, 2 children
Gender: Male
Hometown: Yosemite
Burial: Lakeside Cemetery, Canon City, Colo.
He died before I was 11. But I know he is in heaven.— Danielle Ruoff, daughter in the Colorado Springs Gazette
From Military Times:
Army Staff Sgt. Michael L. Ruoff Jr.
Died July 1, 2007 serving during Operation Iraqi Freedom
31, of Yosemite, Calif.; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 77th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany; died July 1 in Ta’meem, Iraq, of wounds sustained from enemy small-arms fire. Also killed was Sgt. 1st Class Raymond R. Buchan.
Yosemite soldier killed in enemy fire in Iraq
YOSEMITE, Calif. — A soldier from Yosemite was killed by enemy fire in Iraq, the Defense Department said July 3.
Staff Sgt. Michael L. Ruoff Jr., 31, died July 1 of wounds suffered from enemy small-arms fire in Ta’meem, an area where American forces have been struggling with insurgents since 2003, officials said.
Sgt. 1st Class Raymond R. Buchan, 33, of Johnston, Pa., also was killed in the attack, officials said.
Ruoff was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 77th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, in Schweinfurt, Germany. He joined the Army in 1994 at the age of 18 and was stationed for a time at Fort Carson, Colo.
His family lives in Colorado.
Read more about Army Staff Sergeant Michael L. Rouff Jr.
in the Colorado Springs Gazette.
Staff Sgt. Michael L. Rouff previously remembered at Boom3 July 1, 2010.
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Also killed was Sgt. 1st Class Raymond R. Buchan.From Military Times:
Army Sgt. 1st Class Raymond R. Buchan
Died July 1, 2007 serving during Operation Iraqi Freedom
33, of Johnston, Pa.; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany; died July 1 in Ta’meem, Iraq, of wounds sustained from enemy small-arms fire. Also killed was Staff Sgt. Michael L. Ruoff Jr.
Western Pa. soldier killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — A Western Pennsylvania soldier who spent nearly his entire adult life in the military was killed during his second tour of duty in Iraq.
Army Sgt. 1st Class Raymond Richard Buchan, 33, of Johnstown, died July 1 in Ta’meem, Iraq, of wounds from small-arms fire, according to the Defense Department.
Buchan was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany.
Buchan spent 16 years in the Army, his father, Richard, told The Associated Press on July 3.
Buchan, who also had been stationed once at Fort Hood, Texas, was redeployed to Iraq last fall, his father said.
Staff Sgt. Michael L. Ruoff Jr., 31, of Yosemite, Calif., also died from small-arms fire in Ta’meem on Sunday.
Raymond Buchan graduated in 1991 from Westmont Hilltop High School, where he played football and basketball, his brother, Philip, said.
“He loved his family tremendously,” Philip Buchan told The Tribune-Democrat in Johnstown. “He loved his work. He wanted to be there for his troops. That’s what he truly loved.”
A funeral service will be scheduled in Johnstown, family members said. Buchan will be buried in Erie, his wife’s hometown.
Buchan is survived by his wife, Laura, and their two sons, Hayden and Andrew, all of whom live in Germany, as well as his parents and a brother.
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