crucible???

Yes as said it's the final test for a marine

The United States Marine Corps Crucible is the final test in phase three of Marine Corps recruit training. Designed to emphasize the importance of teamwork in overcoming adversity, the Crucible is a rigorous 54-hour field training exercise demanding the application of everything a recruit has learned until that point in recruit training. Throughout the Crucible, recruits are faced with physical and mental challenges that must be accomplished before advancing further.

During the Crucible, recruits are only given two or three field ration packs (MRE) each and only allowed eight hours of sleep — four hours each night, unless given extra night duties such as firewatch. Depriving the recruits of sleep and food simulates the stress of the battlefield. Initially, it may seem like a difficult task to complete. However, compared to real combat, the Crucible is much less stressful. At MCRD Parris Island, the final crucible event is a ten mile march, also called a "hump", in full combat gear. At MCRD San Diego, the final Crucible event is a ten mile march that culminates in climbing up a large, steep hill dubbed "The Reaper", at the top of which recruits are presented with a small token of their achievement and a brief rest before the hike down.

Some of the challenges encountered during the Crucible are various team and individual obstacle courses, day and night assault courses, land navigation courses, individual rushes up steep hills, platoon sized MCMAP challenges, and countless patrols to and from each of these.

After returning from the ten mile "hump", the recruits are treated to a "warrior's breakfast" and will begin Marine Week, family day, and the graduation ceremony where they will be formally recognized as Marines.

One other uses of the word is a device for heating ingrediants to make steel. You use a Crucible to burn any impurties out of the steel.

I have two sons who were in the U.S. Marine Corps. They each brought home a video which shows the M.C. basic training which includes "The Crucible". It is basically the last test of Marine Corps boot camp, during which the recruits are out on a simulated combat training course for approximately one week. During that time they are subjected to just about every combat situation that they might possibly face after they graduate. It looks like lots of fun if you are into...lack of sleep, MRE's for meals, crawling through mud holes, running obstacle courses, etc. It's a tough test and those who pass it have good reason to call themselves "The Few, The Proud"!

Crucible means a severe test or trial, ergo the Marines training.

Military wise...at the end of your training you complete a very hard part of your training. The cumulative review of all you learned. The crucible.

*Marines only*

i watched the movie, The Crucible, the other day. It's about the Salem Witch Trials. I'm not sure if it means anything else.

The Crucible is a 1953 play by Arthur Miller about a witch hunt basicly, but it's really a hoax. It's a play symbolizing communism in America, relating to the McCarthy thing where they named people of being suspects of being a supporter of communism just to get out of gettin in trouble with the government. Basicly "If you're not a communist support who is?" They'd blame other government people to get outta trouble =]. But if you mean the tool, it's used to burn things in it like a cup.

one of the final exercises in marine boot camp, something new since the old corps.

It's a play by Arthur Miller written in the 1950's.

It's about the Salem witch trials.