Investigative Reporting
Russell Carollo / Dayton Daily News

Russell Carollo's series revealed a disturbing truth: The military routinely puts planes and helicopters in the air that it knows are plagued with potentially deadly safety problems. These conditions are, in some cases, allowed to persist for months, years, even decades.

Within days of publication of "Falling from the sky," the Department of Defense announced it was ending its practice of using a standard repair rate of $16 an hour to determine the severity of accidents. That should increase the number of accidents reported to the public and Congress.

Oct. 24, 1999

Carollo and Jeff Nesmith of the Cox Washington Bureau shared the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for their investigation of the military medical system.

Carollo has been a special projects reporter at the Dayton Daily News for eight years. A graduate of Louisiana State and Southeastern Louisiana University, he worked for newspapers in Mississippi, Louisiana and Washington State before joining the Daily News.

He has two children, Brett and Tonya.

Is his next investigative project focused on the military?

"No, it's possible that we might come back to it in the future, but we have some other ideas kicking around now," Carollo said.