Freelance war reporter Alex Quade covers U.S. Special Operations Forces on combat missions. She is the recipient of a national Edward R. Murrow Award, as well as the Congressional Medal Of Honor Society’s “Tex McCrary Award for Excellence in Journalism” for her war reportage. She has worked in television for Fox News and CNN. Quade embeds with elite combat units several months at a time, producing exclusive, long-form, special series, and documentaries. “Chinook Down” is her investigation into the Taliban surface-to-air missile shoot down of a U.S. Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan that killed all on board. Quade gathered material about the attack on the helicopter, obtained previously unreleased documents from the Pentagon and collected video from soldiers and pilots on the scene. The result of her work is a video special for The New York Times – At War website. She recently produced and directed a short documentary about Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan, “Horse Soldiers of 9/11,” that was shown in film festivals nationwide. Narrated by actor Gary Sinise, Quade’s film expands her original investigative reports for The Washington Times, CNN.com, and The Daily Caller. In Quade’s award-winning documentary, “Wounded Warriors” for CNN Presents, she was the first reporter to obtain unprecedented access to injured troops, premiering an exposé on the ravages of battle and the care given at every echelon in war zones. Today, military units include her piece in their pre-mission training, and the President’s Commission on Returning Veterans educates decision-makers and troop caregivers with viewings of the film. Quade serves on the Board of Military Reporters and Editors, the Association of Military Journalists, and has been embedded with every branch of the U.S. military.