“And please, please do not make a permanent decision in a temporary situation. You mean so much to the world,” Camilletti. When there’s two-thirds darkness, one-third day, and all the other life stressors. “This stuff is real, and we’re living overseas in the COVID era. “Let’s talk about the fact that two hours ago, I was bawling in my car over Camden’s loss,” he said. Let’s talk about the challenges we all have. “I know that word is overused, so let’s throw it out. “I just want to say something about resiliency,” he said. “Our arms are wrapped around you,” he said.
“I’ve had to rely on my core group of friends, and they’ve gone through hell and back with me.”Ĭamilletti offered his condolences to Mello’s wife, his father and family in Massachusetts and the airmen of the 448th AXMS. “I never would have foreseen what had happened to me,” Mello said. “It was also the first time I had been separated from my wife since college.”įacing a first deployment, separation from his wife, the loss of his mom and the additional burden of COVID restrictions, he struggled. “I lost my mother a week after my arrival at Royal Air Force Lakenheath,” Mello said in the release. “Both of my parents are Navy veterans, and each of my grandfathers served in the Army National Guard and Air Force, respectively.”īut the young airman struggled when he arrived in England. “I’ve wanted to join the military since I was ten years old,” he said. Mello, who was “inspired by his family’s military lineage,” left for Air Force Basic Military Training in late 2019, according to the 2020 news release. “This morning we found him dead, and we believe he took his own life.” “We first learned he was missing Thursday night and through last night and this morning we put an all-hands-on-deck approach to find our missing teammate,” Camilletti said in his message to the wing’s airmen.
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