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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 B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on August 10, 2022 at 10:45am: This was B at his PIR, 12/21/2012.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on July 26, 2022 at 7:09pm: FUBARwithoutourSR (I lol'd at your screen name!) - do you know what job your SR has for PIR?

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on July 22, 2022 at 7:07pm: My son was in the 900 division back in 2012. He said he was "voluntold" lol. He's tall - 6'4" and he got picked to be a "body snatcher" because of his size. His job was to walk around at PIR and "catch" any sailor that looks like they might pass out while in formation. It is extra work - they will work the 2 PIR's previous to theirs (although right now there aren't any live PIR's so I'm not sure what's happening). When they were livestreaming the PIR's you might have had a chance to see them at the previous PIR's, but again, that's not happening right now.

The Division Duties are explained up above so there are different things they could be doing.

The pros are it gives them something else to do!

The cons are it gives them something else to do!

I believe my son missed one of his division phone calls home because he was "practicing" with another PIR but they allowed him a call separate from his group. It all worked out!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on July 15, 2022 at 7:15pm: Be sure to read the 900 Division Duties up above. I've tried to update as best as I could.

And remember - your SR will perform at the 2 PIR's prior to theirs. Be sure to watch the live PIR and you may catch a glimpse of them depending on what job they have.

Comment by Saltybabe on April 5, 2022 at 4:59pm: Hi - My son is Ship 6 Div 925. Does anyone else have an SR in 925?

Comment by Tammy⚓️Girl on October 18, 2021 at 7:33pm: Elina, congratulations to your son. My son had/has no musical inclination, but he was in a division 900. That is very prestigious; so kudos to your son. Our son stood guard at the perimeter of the PIR graduation hall.. basically keeping an eye on attendees to make sure nobody got out of hand.

Comment by Elina on October 18, 2021 at 4:44pm: Hi, ladies!

I just found out with today's mail that my son is Division 902.

His dad and I are very surprised. My son has no musical inclination and did not participate in any ROTC program. Return address also indicates Ship 04?!

Comment by mytidbitz on October 6, 2021 at 11:54am: Good Morning. Does anyone have a recruit graduating on 11/24?

Comment by Wendy on October 1, 2021 at 10:37pm: My daughter is Div 910 and on ship 04

Comment by mytidbitz on October 1, 2021 at 4:07pm: Aré all 900’s on ship 2? I was told by my daughters recruiter that’s she was in the 900’s but she’s not on ship 2.