{"id":80150,"date":"2026-10-18T09:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/air-force-officer-killed-in-rappelling-accident-before-utsas-game-against-navy\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T09:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:55:05","slug":"air-force-officer-killed-in-rappelling-accident-before-utsas-game-against-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/air-force-officer-killed-in-rappelling-accident-before-utsas-game-against-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force officer killed in rappelling accident before UTSA\u2019s game against Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Officer fell from rafters during pregame display <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Man treated on field before being taken to hospital<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An Air Force officer has died after he fell from the rafters of the Alamodome before the University of Texas at San Antonio\u2019s home game against Navy on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The officer, who has not been named, was taking part in an event to celebrate UTSA\u2019s Salute to Armed Forces and Veterans night. He fell on to the field while rappelling down from the stadium rafters. He was treated on the field before being taken away on a stretcher. He later died from his injuries at a local hospital. Nellis Air Force Base said he was part of the 6th Combat Training Squadron. The unit helps train military members to rappel down from helicopters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/18\/air-force-officer-killed-in-rappelling-accident-before-utsas-game-against-navy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officer fell from rafters during pregame display Man treated on field before being taken to hospital An Air Force officer has died after he fell from the rafters of the Alamodome before the University of Texas at San Antonio\u2019s home game against Navy on Saturday. The officer, who has not been named, was taking part &#8230; <a title=\"Air Force officer killed in rappelling accident before UTSA\u2019s game against Navy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/air-force-officer-killed-in-rappelling-accident-before-utsas-game-against-navy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Air Force officer killed in rappelling accident before UTSA\u2019s game against Navy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}