Case file · Conrad, J. L.

The Case File

What Langley had on Corporal Jason L. Conrad when the print came back. Parts are shown here the way the task force first received them.

Hostile incident

Kuwait–Iraq border · Nov 18, 1990

Conrad checks in at 1330. By 1535 the quick reaction force finds an empty post. No body, no firefight. The file says "hostile incident."

MIA → KIA

Two years later

Corporal Conrad's status changes from missing in action to killed in action, without a shred of new evidence.

Match 99.7%

CIA forensic lab · Astana, 2000

Source: van chassis shard. A ridge pattern bonded into the metal. Match: CPL Jason L. Conrad, deceased. The tech runs it again. Same result.

Eyes only

Team One · Biskra, Algeria

Overwatch from an olive grove above a walled villa on the coast. A guarded Westerner walks the yard and advises the men who built the bomb.

Files shown redacted

See how the two teams split the hunt.