Seal Killed in Iraq, grandson of Charles Keating Jr.

[Jesus Malverde]

When a team of less than a dozen U.S. military advisers came under attack in Iraq Tuesday from more than 100 ISIS fighters, Navy SEAL Charles Keating IV was part of the force sent in to rescue them.

All the advisers made it back. Keating, a decorated combat veteran and star athlete who decided to enlist after the 9/11 attacks, did not.
Providing new details Wednesday about the operation that took the life of the grandson of prominent financier and World War II pilot Charles Keating Jr., Coalition spokesman Col. Steve Warren said that the clash between ISIS and the Kurdish Peshmerga forces the advisers were assisting was "a big fight, one of the largest we've seen recently."

Keating's death is the third American combat loss since the U.S. redeployed forces to Iraq in the summer of 2014 to advise local forces and conduct Special Operations missions against ISIS. The 31-year-old Special Warfare Operator 1st Class was on his third tour in Iraq.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/us-service-member-killed-iraq-mosul/

[Jesus Malverde]

1. Charlie Keating IV, Grandson of Notorious Banker, Identified as Navy SEAL Killed by ISIS

The U.S. Navy SEAL killed by direct fire during an ISIS-led siege in Iraq was identified Tuesday as Charlie Keating IV, a Phoenix high school graduate — and grandson of the banker who came to symbolize America's savings and loan crisis of the 1980s.

"Our state and nation are in mourning today over the loss of a U.S. serviceman — and one of America's finest," Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said in a statement.

Keating IV, 31, had been advising and assisting Kurdish Peshmerga forces north of Mosul on Tuesday when he was struck, officials said earlier, without naming the Navy SEAL.

Keating IV, a graduate of Arcadia High School, is the third American service member to be killed in direct combat since the fight against ISIS began in 2014, the Obama administration said.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/charlie-keating-iv-grandson-notorious-banker-identified-navy-seal-killed-n567361

[HuckleB]

2. The purveyor of the Savings and Loan scandal that should have prevented 2008.

But we decided to learn nothing.