recruits screaming] Narrator: This is the confidence course at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot ... Drill instructor: Get down! More from Boot Camp ...

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.

My brothers and cousins give me hell for not touching the top piece of wood, I'm just desperately trying not to fall. On the drive out I notice a bunch of recruits in the sand pit doing push-ups ...

Last month, educators were dishing out chapter quizzes on war novels like “The Things They Carried” and “All Quiet on the ...