Charles Keating III

Charles Humphrey Keating III (nicknamed C3;[1] born August 20, 1955) is an American former competitive swimmer and real estate executive.

[2] Keating won the AAU National Championship in 1976 and represented the United States that year at the Montreal Summer Olympics.

[7][8] The younger Keating was sentenced to eight years and one month in prison and $97.3 million in restitution but remained free on bail pending appeals.

After two athletic seasons, Keating IV joined the Navy SEALs (2006–2016) and trained at the Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in California.

[13] He was deployed to the American-led intervention in Iraq, supporting Iraqi Kurdistan's Peshmerga forces in an advise and assist mission in a 30-man unit.

On May 3, 2016, Keating IV, a Chief Petty Officer, was killed by small arms fire during an ISIL assault on a Peshmerga position approximately 3 to 5 kilometers behind enemy lines, near the town of Tel Asqof, 28–30 km north of Mosul.