'Those actions increased the impact of the weather conditions on Recruit Beals and other recruits in Group 2, Team 1. The Crucible is the final training event before recruits are awarded the Eagle, Globe and Anchor – a prized insignia and emblem – officially making them a US Marine.ĭuring the Crucible, the senior drill instructor 'intensified training' for Beals's team that included 'directing unauthorized incentive training.' 'Although it is impossible to determine, his perceived indifference to the well-being of recruits demonstrated prior to the Crucible, could have impacted Recruit Beals or other recruits' willingness to seek medical attention when Recruit Beals was clearly showing signs of heat injury during the Crucible.'īeals, who lived in Pennsville, New Jersey, died on June 4, 2021, on the second day of the Crucible, a grueling 54-hour combat-like training event requiring physical strength and teamwork, with little food and sleep deprivation.Ī damning internal report concluded that his death was 'likely avoidable' and puts blame on his senior drill instructor – who has not been identified. The report says the instructor 'did not have the maturity, temperament, and leadership skills necessary' The instructor 'demonstrated little leadership over his team, and at times appeared disinterested in leading or supervising them,' the report, first reported by the Island Packet says. Those include the company commander who 'failed to properly address concerns.'
The drill instructor's name is blacked out in the report, as are others who are found partly to blame for Beals' death. He should be stripped of everything, dishonorably discharged, and he should be thrown in the brig.' Now the blame for his death has been placed squarely on the shoulders of his senior drill instructor who 'did not have the maturity, temperament, and leadership skills necessary to be a drill instructor,' according to the report obtained exclusively by .Īnd Beals's mother, Stacie, told DailyMail in an exclusive interview: 'For me, this individual should not be a Marine. He was found unconscious an hour later in a nearby field and could not be revived.
The death of a US Marine recruit during a grueling training session in blistering heat was 'likely avoidable,' a damning internal report has concluded.ĭalton Beals, 19, died in June 2021 of hyperthermia after wandering away from the exercise – known as 'the Crucible' – on Parris Island, South Carolina. Jerry Oppenheimer is a bestselling biographer and a frequent contributor to Daily Mail Dalton Beals, 19, died in June 2021 during training at the Marine base on Parris Island, South Carolina There have been at least eight deaths of recruits at Parris Island since 2000, according to reports.Beals's mother, Stacie Beals tells that as far as she knows her late son's senior drill instructor has not been punished.The instructor 'demonstrated little leadership over his team, and at times appeared disinterested in leading or supervising them,' the report adds.The report says the instructor 'did not have the maturity, temperament, and leadership skills necessary'.A damning internal report concluded that his death was 'likely avoidable' and puts blame on his senior drill instructor – who has not been identified.He was taking part in the Crucible – a grueling 54-hour combat-like training requiring physical strength and teamwork, with little food and sleep deprivation.
Dalton Beals, 19, died in June 2021 during training at a Marine base on Parris Island, South Carolina Mom of Parris Island Marine recruit, 19, who died of heatstroke during 'Crucible' training calls for drill instructor to be dishonorably discharged after internal report slams him for lacking 'maturity, temperament and leadership skills'
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