{"id":321867,"date":"2026-06-04T02:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/321867\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T02:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:07:08","slug":"central-texas-soldier-dies-in-iraq-during-training-incident-department-of-defense-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/321867\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Texas soldier dies in Iraq during training incident, Department of Defense says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The overseas death of a U.S. Army soldier from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Central Texas<\/a> is under investigation, the Department of Defense announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Devin A. Seibel, 26, of the Waco suburb of Robinson, died Sunday in a &#8220;training\u2011related incident&#8221; at Erbil Airbase in Iraq, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the department, Seibel was an active\u2011duty soldier supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led coalition campaign launched in June 2014 to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Seibel was assigned to the Air Ambulance Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, in Fort Carson, Colo.<\/p>\n<p>The department didn&#8217;t release any additional information.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The overseas death of a U.S. Army soldier from Central Texas is under investigation, the Department of Defense&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[631,430,27,29,28,26435,73147],"class_list":["post-321867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-death","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-united-states-army","tag-united-states-department-of-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}