A Tribute to Staff Sgt. Nicholas Fredsti: 'We Lost One of the Best'
By U.S. Army Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod, Task Force 1-82 PAO
FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARRIOR, Afghanistan – He fancied cheese fries, Red Bulls and old Stallone movies, but when 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper Staff Sgt. Nicholas Fredsti went to war, he was all business. “He was an all around good guy and always joking, but when it came to work, he was hard on that too. Led from the front. He was a hero,” said Sgt. Joshua Bracey, one of his team leaders. On June 15, 2012, Fredsti’s platoon was ambushed by insurgents in southern Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. As a squad leader with Company D, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, Fredsti responded instinctively by moving his squad to high ground to lay down a base of fire. Fredsti was struck in the chest by a …
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