{"id":665124,"date":"2026-05-12T02:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665124\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:50:10","slug":"australian-soldier-dies-while-completing-parachuting-training-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665124\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian soldier dies while completing parachuting training course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\ufeffn Australian soldier has died while completing a training course on NSW&#8217;s south coast overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Defence Force confirmed that the soldier died during a parachuting course at the Jervis Bay Airfield last night.<\/p>\n<p>One other soldier was injured and did not require hospitalisation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/2a1038db-260e-4f21-a8fe-aa0e5599b546.png\"   alt=\"FILE PHOTO - Australian Army special forces soldiers prepare to board a Royal Australian Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft at the Australian Defence Force Parachuting School at HMAS Albatross.\"\/>FILE PHOTO &#8211; Australian Army special forces soldiers prepare to board a Royal Australian Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft at the Australian Defence Force Parachuting School at HMAS Albatross.image.png (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We request that the privacy of Defence members and families is respected at this time,&#8221; the Australian Defence Force said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Defence will provide further updates when possible.\ufeff&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The death comes after other training incidents in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Lance Corporal Tulsa Rumney of the 3rd Brigade died in a single-vehicle rollover at the Townsville Field Training Area on October 15, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, in 2024, Lance Corporal Jack Fitzgibbon died after being injured in a parachuting incident at Sydney&#8217;s Richmond RAAF base.<\/p>\n<p>The ADF is expected to address the media shortly.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\ufeffn Australian soldier has died while completing a training course on NSW&#8217;s south coast overnight. The Australian Defence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-665124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}