Immediately following high school Nick joined the Army and served with the 82nd Airborne Division and 25th Light Infantry Division as an Infantryman. After September 11, 2001, Nick volunteered for US Army Special Forces (Green Berets) and eventually served 2 tours in Iraq as a Special Forces Weapons Sergeant and Special Forces Intelligence Sergeant. Honorably discharged in 2009, Nick moved his family to Virginia and became the Director of Operations for a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Company, providing direct support to our service men and women conducting counter insurgency and counter IED operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nick has served in the grass roots of the conservative movement for years, becoming a precinct coordinator and county chairman for the Culpeper County Republican Committee. In 2015, Nick decided to run for the House of Delegates. In his first term as a Delegate, Nick patroned legislation which reduced regulations, increased government transparency and drastically increased local control of important educational decisions making it easier for students to have access to Career Technical Education. In 2017, Nick was overwhelmingly elected to his second term in the House of Delegates. Click this link, Nick Freitas, to learn more.
