Additionally, the drill instructors assign different leaders for each event, so that every prospective Marine learns not just how to follow, but how to lead. During the Crucible, recruits march ...

"We have two missions in the Marine Corps-- to win battles and make ... South Carolina. "The Crucible is one piece of that effort." The Crucible emphasizes trainee teamwork under stress.

About 15,000 recruits train to be enlisted Marines annually in San Diego. The other half, including all female recruits, go to Parris Island, S.C. The Corps added The Crucible in 1996 to make boot ...

Narrator: This Marine Corps recruit isn't actually injured ... Narrator: It's part of their final test at boot camp, known as the Crucible, a 54-hour event that all recruits must complete.

Lukas Brockway had one final challenge to overcome to earn the title of U.S. Marine. Before him and 500 other men in Charlie Company last month lay the Crucible — a 54-hour hike of about 50 ...

“Crucible” training is a 54-hour stretch of hardcore challenges in which, according to the corps’ website, recruits test “physical strength, skills and the Marine Corps values.” Getty ...

At Parris Island, the Crucible means both of these things. Throughout the test, recruits are shown that honor, courage and commitment -- the Marines’ core values -- are not merely abstractions ...