{"id":79904,"date":"2018-06-10T10:26:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T14:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79904"},"modified":"2018-06-10T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T14:34:00","slug":"staff-sgt-alexander-w-conrad-killed-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79904","title":{"rendered":"Staff Sgt. Alexander W. Conrad killed in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79905\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79905\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Alexander-Conrad-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Alexander-Conrad-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Alexander-Conrad-258x333.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Alexander-Conrad.jpg 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-soldier-killed-others-wounded-in-somalia-al-shabaab-gunfight-2018-6\">Business Insider<\/a> reports that a special forces soldier was killed and four others were wounded during an engagement in Jubaland, Somalia;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> One US service member reportedly received sufficient medical care at the scene and three others were transported out of the area to receive treatment.<\/p>\n<p>A coalition comprised of around 800 US, Somalian, and Kenyan forces came under attack by mortar and small-arms fire at around 2:45 p.m. local time, AFRICOM said. One coalition service member was wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition forces were conducting a &#8220;multi-day operation&#8221; to clear al-Shabaab \u2014 an Islamist militant group \u2014 from villages and establish a &#8220;permanent combat outpost&#8221; around 217 miles southwest of Mogadishu. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/News-Releases\/News-Release-View\/Article\/1545936\/dod-identifies-army-casualty\/\">Department of Defense<\/a> identified the soldier as Staff Sergeant Alexander W. Conrad;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Staff Sgt. Alexander W. Conrad, 26, of Chandler, Arizona, died June 8, in Somalia of injuries sustained from enemy indirect fire. The incident is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Conrad was assigned to 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Insider reports that a special forces soldier was killed and four others were wounded during &hellip; <a title=\"Staff Sgt. Alexander W. Conrad killed in Somalia\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79904\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Staff Sgt. Alexander W. Conrad killed in Somalia<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}