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900 Division Duties

Here is a description of the 900's Division duties written by a former Sailor:

900 divisions are performing divisions. There are 3 types of 900 divisions which will be explained in depth a little further down; staff, state flags, and triple threat. 900's PT less and have much less slack for people who can't pass their PFA or their swim qual, not because we're assholes, but because our "free time" is spent at the drill hall.

Staff divisions, which are all male, run graduation. Their division provides the reviewing commander, master-at-arms, and adjutant for the graduation ceremony. Basically those are the guys that stand right in front of where the CO is sitting and issue commands to the divisions, etc. Their division also has an honor guard that gets inspected by the reviewing officer and/or commanding officer (not 100% sure on who performs the inspection lol). Other than that, they have door openers, bell strikers, bodysnatchers, etc. They go off of very specific cues that help graduation run smoothly.

Next is state flags, which is an integrated division. Obviously they carry state flags, along with U.S. territory flags, and they're kind of like one giant color guard. Their division also provides the actual 5-man color guard (2 rifles, U.S. flag, Navy flag, POW flag) and the drum line.

Last, but not least, is triple threat, which is also an integrated division. They have a band, a choir, an armed exhibition drill team, and non-performers if you don't make the cut or get cut from one of those three. Not sure if all MUs have to be in a triple threat, but I know if you are an MU in a triple threat division you will be performing a solo while the band is playing. The Navy band plays at the beginning of graduation and provides the music you hear in the drill tape during the ceremony, but the triple threat band plays a few songs by themselves and with the choir. I wasn't in band, but I heard the music was prettyyy easy. As for the choir, most of our non-performers came from not making the cut for choir. If you've never done armed exhibition and only have experience in band color guard or armed regulation, you can still do triple threat drill team. For the band people, the rifles are a lot heavier, but you'll get used to it pretty quickly. For armed reg. people, most drill teams do simple, clean moves and save the cool fancy spinning for the RPCO or ARCPO, so as put in the work you're fine.

If you're interested in being in one of these divisions, be aware that only one 900 division is formed per week, but not all week. For example, I arrived on a Tuesday which happened to be the first day they were screening for triple threat. We got a majority of our division strength on Wednesday, with a few stragglers on Thursday. We're housed in ship 02, the USS Reuben James, which is the closest ship to pretty much everything. Only 900 divisions live in ship 02, and when you first get there you'll be sharing a compartment with a senior division that's about to graduate.

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Comment by Proud Mom of a Sailor on June 14, 2010 at 1:57pm: Deanna do you know if they will post the human flag picture on facebook? Deb's son and my son are in the same division.

Comment by Deanna_H_Proud_FC2's_Mom on June 14, 2010 at 1:52pm: < holds Deb's hand > oh, I remember that feeling.. How many times have you picked up your cell phone to make sure it's still on? Are you walking from room to room with both your cell phone and the house phone in your hand?

Bravo Zulu to your Sailor!! My son (who's PIR was 4/9) was in Div 921. He texted me this morning and said that DIV 931 was in front of him in the "Human Flag" I said "That's because 900 Div are the Best of the Best and they put them in front of the BEST Sailor!"

I know you'll have a fantastic time at PIR!! Such an amazing experience.. All of it!!

Comment by Deb 3cc on June 14, 2010 at 10:59am: Waiting....Waiting......Waiting.....For THE CALL!

Comment by MamaBear kk on May 23, 2010 at 2:03pm: https://www.navy-nex.com/command/customer_service/gift_card.html

When my son was at GL RTC, I sent him a NEX Gift Card. Although the NEX Gift card can be used at the Rickie NEX, he used his when he arrived at his A School location. I have included the link above. My best advice is to have the gift card come to YOU. Then you can enter the proper address and send it off to your SR at GL RTC. The link above will give you all the information needed. This is also a great "thinking of you" gift from grand parents, aunts, and uncles, etc. : ) ~ kk

Comment by MamaBear kk on May 17, 2010 at 7:34pm: TG 33 — 9 Divisions (227–234 & 933) Graduate Thursday, July 1, 2010
per the site as of today.

Comment by LMC -mom of 2 Sailors! on May 16, 2010 at 10:47am: Cheryl- my son was in his division for a few days longer because they had to fill the division. She the two guys he left with are grad on the 4th his is the 11th. He told me he plays at 2 PIR's before his so I'm waiting for someone to post video from the May 27th and June 4th so I can see if I see him.

Comment by Patty_CDS on May 10, 2010 at 9:55pm: Does anyone know if ship 6 div 927 preformed last weekend. I know that the choir did?
Printed my parking pass...weeeeee! So exciting.

Comment by Proud Mom of a Sailor on May 10, 2010 at 9:42pm: Deb 3cc ~ here is another link that kinda tells u what they go through week by week

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/navyjoin/l/aanavybasic3.htm

Comment by Proud Mom of a Sailor on May 10, 2010 at 9:27pm: Hello Deb 3cc ~ My son too is on Ship 6 Division 931, I am gonna add a link to the PIR 18 June 2010 here it is.....

http://www.navyformoms.com/group/pir18june2010

Comment by Deb 3cc on May 10, 2010 at 9:13pm: Would love to hear from other Moms who have someone in the Ship 6 Division 931 -My son Chase is at Boot Camp and scheduled to graduate June 18th-I keep reading a lot of different things about tests and battle stations and I am not familiar with the lingo can someone point me in the correct direction?