Paul “Pete” Thomas Carroll (April 6, 1910 – September 17, 1954) was a United States Army Brigadier General and White House Staff Secretary to President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The 2d Regiment underwent intensive training in England and Northern Ireland in preparation for the invasion of Europe, and Carroll landed with them at Utah Beach on July 9, 1944.

[6][7] In October 1944, Carroll was ordered back to the Pentagon where he was the daily combat briefing officer of the Operations Division of the War Department General Staff, in which capacity he read telegraph messages, got a sense of how the war was progressing, put the developments on a map and briefed the senior officers every morning.

[10] From August 1948 to February 1949, Carroll attended and graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, VA. His next assignment was the Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, KS, where, as a Lieutenant Colonel, he taught fellow officers and served as Executive Officer and Class Supervisor, Department of Operations and Training.

On July 1, 1950, Carroll was recruited to join the faculty at the Army War College, also in Fort Leavenworth, where he taught for the remainder of the year.

[11] In October 1950, Carroll was called by General Eisenhower to assist him in putting together staff for the military headquarters of the newly established North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in France.