DoD identifies airman who died in non-combat incident in Syria

Airforcetimes ^ | 30 March 2017 | Staff Report

[onona]

The Defense Department on Thursday released the name of a security forces airman who died in Syria while supporting Operation Inherent Resolve.

Staff Sgt. Austin Bieren, 25, died Tuesday in northern Syria in a non-combat related incident. Bieren, who was from Umatilla, Oregon, was assigned to the 21st Space Wing at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado.

[onona]

Rest in peace, brother. God keep all our forces in Syria safe.

[Doogle]

RIP

[Lurkinanloomin]

It isn’t often that 25 year olds die of natural causes.
It’s particularly curious that this happens in a war zone.
I’d really like to know what he died from.

[Steven Scharf]

It does not say natural cause, it says “ a non-combat related incident”

[Steven Scharf]

Oops, the article says both. The original poster did not post the next paragraph.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Go to the link and read the article.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I see you already did and discovered that.

[Valpal1]

I saw some local speculation that it may have been heat exhaustion/dehydration. Sadly, his identical twin brother drowned at age 14.

[vooch]

remind me again why Americans need to die in Syria ?

[onona]

ISIS. we are in the business of killing them.

[sandboxshooter]

Supposedly his brother died of some heart ailment years prior. May have been a heart issue passed down. RIP.

[vooch]

they’ve been throwing rocks at each other for over 2,000 years. You really think we’ll stop that ?

[onona]

Don’t care if they throw rocks at each other. Want em to stop throwing rocks at us.