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Maria Daume, a Marine Corps recruit, pushes an ammunition can during the Crucible, a 54-hour culminating training event, on Parris Island, Jan. 5, 2017. Daume, assigned to Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, was born in a Russian prison and brought to Long Island, N.Y., at the age of 4 when she and her twin brother were adopted. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Greg Thomas

Crucible Crawl

Maria Daume, a Marine Corps recruit, pushes an ammunition can during the Crucible, a 54-hour culminating training event, on Parris Island, Jan. 5, 2017. Daume, assigned to Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, was born in a Russian prison and brought to Long Island, N.Y., at the age of 4 when she and her twin brother were adopted. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Greg Thomas

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