U.S. Marine Corps recruits from Alpha Company move under an obstacle during a night training event at The Crucible, Sept. 12, 2014, at Marine Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C.U.S. Air Force photo ...

"The Crucible is one piece of that effort ... The recruits form up around a half-size replica of the Marine Corps Memorial -- also known as the Iwo Jima Memorial. There, a significant ...

The Crucible is the final challenge in the U.S. Marines boot camp that recruits must complete in order to become a Marine. It is the culmination of 12 weeks of marksmanship, firing range ...

The Crucible' happens during Week 10 of the 13-week Marines training. It's a 54-hour endurance event, and the only get five MREs -- small prepackaged meals – during that time. They get no more ...

The Marine Corps is considering moving the Crucible earlier in recruit training to extend the final phase of boot camp. (Lance Cpl. Colby Cooper) The Crucible may be moved earlier in recruit ...

“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 ...

Dalton Beals, 19, had been at boot camp in Parris Island, South Carolina, and had died June 4 during “the Crucible” ― the final, grueling, 54-hour pinnacle of Marine Corps boot camp.

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., April 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Marine recruits, both women and men, patrolled through a mock village that suddenly was struck by simulated machine gun fire and explosions.

That’s according to a U.S. Marines investigative report obtained by the Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette. Beals died June 4, 2021, during the Crucible, a rite-of-passage held during week ...