Updated info indicates that SSgt Steven Carrillo, the USAF Security Forces specialist accused of killing a Santa Cruz, CA Sheriff’s Deputy in an ambush was a member of the Phoenix Raven team at Travis AFB where he was stationed. Ravens are hand-picked...
highly-trainer specialists who deploy and provide security for mobility aircraft transiting areas with high terrorist and criminal threats. This photo from 2018 shows Carrillo training in preparation to attend the Raven course in New Jersey: travis.af.mil/News/Photos/ig…
There are roughly 200 Ravens in the active duty Air Force; most are assigned at mobility hubs like Travis; McChord AFB, WA, Dover AFB, DE, Charleston AFB, SC, McGuire AFB, NJ and other locations
The photo of Carrillo in training was taken only four months after his wife, A1C Monika Carrillo, was found dead in a hotel room in Sumter, SC, near Shaw AFB where she and her husband were stationed. A1C Carrillo was the mother of two young children; she was 30 years old
She was also a native of the Santa Cruz area, where her husband carried out that murderous ambush of local law enforcement, killing Deputy Sgt Damon Gutzwiller. A1C Carrillo’s obituary from 2018 posted here: scmemorial.com/tribute/detail…
Her husband’s quick transition from Shaw to Travis suggests the PCS move was in the works at the time of his wife’s passing, or he was granted a humanitarian reassignment, placing him closer to family who could help with the children. However, serving as a Phoenix Raven, with..
frequent deployments, was an unusual career move for an NCO who recently lost his wife and had the responsibility of raising a young son and daughter, alone.
