Mom of Marine who died in his final training at Parris Island is done being told to 'keep quiet'
Sofia Sanchez and Karl Puckett, The Island Packet (Hilton Head Island, S.C.) - Yesterday 1:00 PM
Aug. 4—HILTON HEAD, S.C. — Last of three parts
When it was time for the graduation of Platoon 2040 in Company E last June at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, Stacie Beveridge Beals assumed she would be there celebrating her son, Dalton Beals, alongside the other recruits' families.
Instead, she was making funeral arrangements and visiting the barracks where his fellow recruits had left a makeshift memorial on his bunk following his death during the final stretch of training on June 4, 2021.
"I never got to see him in uniform except when we buried him," said Beveridge Beals, of Pennsville, New Jersey.
Beals, a 19-year-old Marine recruit, died on Parris Island during the Crucible — a 54-hour hike that tests marine training at the end of their 13 weeks on base. He was missing for an hour before found collapsed in a clearing without a pulse, having succumbed to the unrelenting South Carolina heat.
Beals could not be revived.
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