KCEY ELENA RUIZ
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Officer Rank: Senior Airman
Memorial Panel: 37-W: 30
Department: U.S. Air Force, Security Forces Directorate
End of Watch: October 2, 2015
Cause: AIRC
Age: 21
Years of Service: 2
Description: Senior Airman Ruiz and Nathan Sartain, of the 66th Security Forces Squadron, were protecting the crew and passengers of USAF C-130J on a mission in Afghanistan when the aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff at the Jalalabad Airfield in Afghanistan. All eleven people onboard died and three people on the ground were also killed.
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