Pete Reed, a humanitarian, paramedic and U.S. Marine Corps veteran who had gone to work in Ukraine assisting people afflicted by the war, was killed in a front-line explosion, according to his wife and the nonprofit organization they co-founded. He was 33.
since Russia’s invasion nearly a year ago. Some had joined Ukrainian combat units as volunteers, while others have sought to assist the Ukrainian people in non-fighting capacities.
He settled briefly in Jackson Hole, Wyo. But after the Islamic State overran Iraq, Reed left the United States in 2015, leading medical teams with Kurdish forces partnered with the United States and then setting up an austere medical treatment facility during the, in which Iraqi forces, backed by American air power, took back a major city in some of the bloodiest fighting against the terrorist group.
Over the next few years, Reed was involved in operations in Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Poland. More recently, he attended paramedic school, graduating last year, his wife said.
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