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Coronado-Based SEAL Killed in Iraq Identified as Charles Keating IV

UPDATE (5/4/16):  The Department of Defense announced today the death of a U.S. Navy sailor who was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve.

Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Charles H. Keating IV, 31, of San Diego, California, died May 3 in Tall Usquf, Iraq, of combat related causes.  He was assigned to a West Coast-based Navy SEAL Team.

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Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Charles Keating IV, 31, of San Diego. Source: U.S. Navy
Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Charles Keating IV, 31, of San Diego. Source: U.S. Navy

A U.S. service member advising and assisting peshmerga forces in Iraq was killed by enemy fire north of Mosul today.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter — in Germany for this morning’s U.S. European Command change of command and to convene a meeting of his counterparts whose nations are leading the effort to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — announced the service member’s death.

The secretary offered his condolences to the fallen service member’s family.

The service member was killed during an ISIL attack on a peshmerga position about 1 to 3 miles behind the forward line of troops, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement, adding that the service member’s name and other information will be released after next-of-kin notification is complete.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the service member’s family,” Cook said. “As Secretary Carter noted today in Germany, this sad news is a reminder of the dangers our men and women in uniform face every day in the ongoing fight to destroy ISIL and end the threat the group poses to the United States and the rest of the world. Our coalition will honor this sacrifice by dealing ISIL a lasting defeat.”

– U.S. Department of Defense

Related:  Navy SEAL Charles Keating IV killed in Iraq after ISIS breaks through Peshmerga lines (CNN)

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