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Wednesday, March 25, 2011 7B
Loyalton grad shares Afghanistan experience
Lance Cpl. Brenton Beever and his comrades go on patrol in the Sangin Valley, Helmand
Province, Afghanistan. Beever's Marine Corps unit -- 1st Platoon, Kilo Company --took fire on a
daily basis while in Afghanistan. Photos courtesy Lance Cpl. Brenton Beever
Mona Hill
Staff Writer
mhill@plumasnews.com
According to his mother,
Loire Wallace of Quincy,
United States Marine Corps
Lance Cpl. Brenton Beever, a
2004 graduate of Loyalton
High School, shares a unique
experience with his late
grandfather, Graeagle resi-
dent Francis Beever -- he
survived a near miss. Twice.
Beever recently returned
stateside to Camp Pendleton
after a seven-month deploy-
ment to.the Sangin Valley of
Helmand Province in south-
ern Afghanistan.
The elder Beever, a World
War II Navy vet who served
on an aircraft carrier, sur-
vived a kamikaze attack.
Standing on deck with about
six or seven shipmates, he
was the only one to survive
the attack.
In two incidents, Lance
Cpl. Beever sustained con-
cussions in lED strikes that
killed one and maimed other
Marines in his unit. He re-
ferred to the experiences as
being "blown up."
As part of the Corps' 3rd
Battalion, 5th Marines, Beev-
er spent 4-1/2 months on pa-
trol, engaged in daily combat
against Taliban insurgents.
Assigned to Kilo Compa-
ny's First Platoon in the 3/5,
Beever's platoon took fire
daily on leaving its forward
operating base (FOB -- pro-
nounced fob).
His patrol unit, made up of
three squads of four men plus
a corpsman, were part of a
larger effort to clear the valley
of particularly fierce Salafist
and Taliban resistance. Beev-
er estimated that 25 percent of
the IED strikes in Afghanistan
occurred in the Sangin Valley
while he was there.
The rudimentary devices
are used specifically as maxi-
mum anti-personnel devices:
meant to maim and kill.
Two months in, Beever was
on patrol with his unit when
a Marine ahead of him
stepped on an IED. The two
closest Marines lost limbs;
the third closest, Beever, was
knocked unconscious and
sustained a concussion.
He said on returning to con-
sciousness, his intensive
training kicked in to focus on
saving the lives of his buddies.
"I didn't go to fight for freedom, I fought for my
brothers over there with me."
Lance Cpl. Brenton Beever, United States Marine Corps
He said the repetitious
training helped him to "in-
stantaneously move on" to sta-
bilize and patch up the wound-
ed enough to evacuate them.
Beever admitted, "It hits
you hard later," adding that
if the other Marine had
stepped over the IED, he
would have been the one to
be wounded rather than the
others. He felt a bit of guilt
about that, preferring to have
been injured himself rather
than someone else+
Beever also said that sur-
vivors in the patrol felt angry
and wanted to avenge their
comrades.
Asked about the potential
to become reckless because of
those emotions, Beever said,
"(You are) always cautious
outside the wire."
His superiors must have
had similar concerns because
the patrol wasn't allowed to
leave the FOB for several days
following that engagement.
For all its horror, the first
incident was not as bad as
the second. In that instance,
Beever was within 25 feet of
the IED when it blew -- three
or four Marines were in-
jured, one fatally. Beever es-
caped with a concussion.
Beever also admits to
nightmares from the first in-
cident. He said he wakes up
looking for his weapon; that
it's strange to be without it.
The entire time he was in
Afghanistan, he didn't go
anywhere without it.
The Marine command is
calling the 3/5 "hard hit"
with 26 KIA and 173 casual-
ties from that tour. Beever
will serve at Pendleton until
he is deployed again.
Beever said, "When you go
over there and fight in a war
like that.., people ask, 'Do you
even know what you're fight-
ing for?' ... I didn't go to fight
for freedom, I fought for my
brothers over there with me."
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