Nicholas Maimer

Nate Peterson, Maimer’s step-cousin and a judge advocate general in the Idaho National Guard, told Military.com last week:

 “I know a lot of people who would die for family, a lot of people who would die for country, but I know very few people who would go somewhere else and die for someone else’s freedom, somebody else’s rights and liberties. And that was Nick.”

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Retired US Army Special Forces Staff Sergeant Nicholas Maime

Ukraine Territorial Defense Forces   @TDF_UA · 11h   Hundreds of TDF soldiers came to the farewell ceremony of their fallen brother, Nicholas Maimer, a US citizen and former Green Beret. Nicholas helped train thousands of TDF soldiers as a volunteer instructor before enlisting and deploying with the 135 TDF Battalion to Bakhmut   ***

Maimer served in the U.S. Army from 1996 to 1998. He then joined the Idaho Army National Guard until 2018, according to his military service record. He deployed to the Philippines in 2006 during Operation Enduring Freedom, in which Special Forces units advised the Armed Forces of the Philippines as they battled domestic and transnational terrorist groups. 

During his service, Maimer earned multiple awards and decorations, including the Special Forces Tab, Army Commendation Medal and four Army Achievement Medals. 

A Telegram post Tuesday by the commander of the private Russian military company Wagner Group cast a pall over Maimer’s death. Yevgeny Prigozhin, who runs the mercenary group, posted a video that he claimed showed the body of an American, which he appeared to be inspecting. He alleged the man had been firing at the Russians when he was killed and said the group would return the body to the U.S.

https://sofrep.com/news/former-green-beret-nicholas-maimer-killed-by-russians-in-ukraine/