Staff Sgt. Alexander "Alex" Conrad was their middle child, the one who played T-ball as a little boy, football in high school and lived through two Army deployments in Afghanistan. Images on the ...

It's no surprise Staff Sgt. Alex Conrad was one of the elite. He had someone there to challenge him most of his life while growing up in Chandler. "I always followed suit with him. We were always ...

Staff Sgt. Alex Conrad, 26, died from wounds he received during a militant attack on a small outpost in Somalia. By Thomas Gibbons-Neff A complex and difficult medical procedure that ultimately ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia—The U.S. commandos careened between grief and anger as Alex Conrad’s flag-draped coffin was hoisted onto the cargo plane. Al-Shabaab militants allied with al Qaeda had ...

Four years ago, we lost a man dearly important to us. Four years ago, Alex Conrad was killed in action in Somalia. Before Alex left, he assured his family it was going to be a short deployment ...