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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe identity of the SEAL KIA in Iraq yesterday has been released.\u00a0 He was SO1 Charles Humphrey Keating IV, based at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado.\u00a0 He was a native of Arizona.<\/p>\n
SO1 Keating was reportedly part of a Quick Reaction Force (QRF) sent to rescue a small group of US advisors to the Kurdish Peshmerga when they and their Kurdish allies were attacked by numerically superior Daesh forces.\u00a0 While performing that mission, he was killed in ground combat, most probably by AK-47 fire, IVO the town of Tel Asku, Iraq<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n He was 31 years old.<\/p>\n If the name rings a bell, yes:\u00a0 his grandfather was indeed that<\/u> Charles Keating Jr.\u00a0 However, regardless of his grandfather\u2019s history of financial malfeasance the younger Keating appears to have been a decent \u00a0guy<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n Rest in peace, brother-in-arms. \u00a0May God comfort your surviving family, friends, and professional colleagues.<\/p>\n No combat troops in Iraq, eh?\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"