Two Camp Pendleton Marines

Two Camp Pendleton Marines Killed Marine Lance Cpl. Brandon Christopher Dewey wanted his mother to hear the news directly from his lips. Dewey called home Newport Cigarettes Wholesale from a field hospital in Iraq to say he was injured by a suicide bomber who broke through a checkpoint during intense fighting Newport Cigarettes Carton Price in Fallouja, west of Baghdad. The resulting shrapnel cut his right side, mostly his arm and leg. "He had some scarring on his face that he was very proud of," his mother, Julia Conover, said last week from her home in Tracy, Calif., about 60 miles east of San Francisco. For that September 2004 incident, Dewey was awarded a Purple Heart. Although her youngest son assured her that he was fine, Conover said it still shook her the next day when an officer from the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton called to relay the injury report. "I was driving and I still had to pull over even though I already knew," she said. Sixteen months later, during her son's second tour in Iraq, Conover received more bad news, and it was delivered in person. This time, her son did not cheat death. Dewey, 20, was killed Jan. 20 when a suicide bomber exploded a car in Haqlaniya, northwest of Baghdad. Also killed in the Wholesale Newport Cigarettes explosion was Marine Cpl. Marlboro Lights Cigarettes Carlos Arellano, 22, of Rosemead. Both were assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton. As part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, their unit was attached to the 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward). Conover said her son had no reservations about returning to the war zone, and seemed ready for any challenge. "He told me not to be afraid," she said. "He felt really good about the training that they had all summer; he felt confident about the whole thing." Dewey remained upbeat during their last conversation, a 30-minute phone call Jan. 16. They talked about the packages she had sent the month before, which included extra holiday cookies, cupcakes and black socks to supply his squad. Conover said the infantry members wear the socks for a week at a time and them throw them away. She said she always included a pair Cheap Newports in his weekly care packages, along with a magazine, snacks, a carton of cigarettes and often a heavy-metal CD.