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U.S. Officials Describe Fight That Killed Navy SEAL Charles Keating IV
Defense.org, Navy.mil via USNI News ^ | 5/4/2016 | Defense.org, Navy.mil via Sam LaGrone

Posted on 05/04/2016 6:42:32 PM PDT by Syncopated

From the article:

Keating “was struck by direct fire, and although he was medevaced within the all-important golden hour, his wound was not survivable,” Warren said. “No other coalition or American forces were injured, though both medevac helicopters were damaged by small arms fire.”


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: gwot; iraq; keating; specialforces; usnavy
Read the entire article. RIP, Petty Officer.
1 posted on 05/04/2016 6:42:32 PM PDT by Syncopated
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To: Syncopated

14 hours of fighting...
Sounds like hell.


2 posted on 05/04/2016 6:44:28 PM PDT by Syncopated
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To: Syncopated

Sacrificed so “commander zero” could appear to be actually fighting isis instead of supporting them.


3 posted on 05/04/2016 6:50:01 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Syncopated
Such a tragedy, guess we will never know with absolute certainty whether it was sniper, small arms or other fire. He was so handsome, beautiful blue eyes.

Our local talk host went further and looked at some military social media. He learned that Keating left behind a fiance to whom he was to be married in November. Her heart is broken; I can only imagine what other family and friends are feeling.

Keating is pictured with a woman believed to be his fiancee Brooke Clark, from the Mirror UK.

More photos at link.


4 posted on 05/04/2016 7:00:47 PM PDT by Aliska (Trump/Love 2016 has a nice ring to it, now we shall see)
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Just damn


5 posted on 05/04/2016 7:07:17 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Syncopated

The ISIS attack was “coordinated and complex”. Seems Team Zero can’t help but COMPLIMENT ISIS every chance they get. I’m SICK of it.


6 posted on 05/04/2016 7:10:35 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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7 posted on 05/04/2016 7:22:42 PM PDT by gaijin
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8 posted on 05/04/2016 7:24:17 PM PDT by gaijin
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9 posted on 05/04/2016 7:25:13 PM PDT by gaijin
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Everyone needs to remember and post with EVERY story about this guy that we killed 58 of their guys and destroyed all of their "technicals". We wiped them.
10 posted on 05/04/2016 7:30:05 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so that others don't have to do it for you.)
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Obama will do everything to cover his support for ISIS, including killing off key members of their staff, that he knows the whereabouts.

He will try to act like a great pro America president... while he covers his filthy acts of treason.

107 124 110 102 117


11 posted on 05/04/2016 7:37:38 PM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (10 rounds 10 meters 10 seconds 10 centimetres)
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To: Syncopated

RIP to this brave and courageous Navy Seal.


12 posted on 05/04/2016 7:53:14 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Aliska

How sad.

Charles Keating’s grandson.

I guess it’s too long ago now, people don’t remember the Keating Five.

It was John McCain’s almost demise. Maybe in some ways the beginning of his change from a fun but basically conservative guy into something more fake, more political.

And many said Keating was attacked by the Left because he was stridently anti-Abortion in a time when most people were ambivalent about Roe v. Wade.

How incredibly sad.

Screw the damn Muslim world and their chaos and dysfunction that has brought nothing but death and sorrow to all of us and takes away our best.


13 posted on 05/04/2016 8:00:18 PM PDT by Regulator
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His grandfather was also on a presidential commission that studied pornography—he was against it.


14 posted on 05/04/2016 8:42:08 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Syncopated

Amen! A brave warrior!


15 posted on 05/04/2016 9:43:38 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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He brought back honor to the Keating name!


16 posted on 05/04/2016 9:44:02 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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