{"id":450697,"date":"2026-09-29T02:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450697\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T02:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:44:13","slug":"apex-soldier-killed-during-training-in-texas-returns-home-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450697\/","title":{"rendered":"Apex soldier killed during training in Texas returns home :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The soldier killed in Texas during an Army training was brought home to North Carolina on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans and military members gathered to honor Private Ethan Brewer of Apex and his family at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Brewer enlisted in the Army in 2025 and wanted to train as a medic, arriving at Fort Hood in early 2026. His awards include the Army Achievement Medal.<\/p>\n<p>His father, Matthew Brewer, told WRAL he helped his son swear in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the best honors of my life was getting to swear him in before he went off to basic [training],&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to officials at Fort Hood, Brewer was killed in a vehicle rollover involving a front-line ambulance during training.<\/p>\n<p>Patriot Guard Riders of North Carolina saluted as a hearse brought Ethan&#8217;s flag-wrapped casket from a plane that landed at RDU.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3c94d6b7-f2ca-494a-a71a-52b605fe22d7.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/>\u00a9 WRAL<\/p>\n<p>A motorcycle and police escort then led the soldier to an Apex funeral home.<\/p>\n<p>Patriot Guard Riders anticipate another flag salute for Ethan&#8217;s funeral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The soldier killed in Texas during an Army training was brought home to North Carolina on Monday. Veterans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59814,155026,90407,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-450697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-apex","tag-fallen-hero","tag-soldier","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450697","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=450697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}