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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.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!
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Comment by Sara on May 31, 2019 at 3:11pm
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New to this discussion. Anyone have a recruit in division 935 with PIR of July 3rd? My son is assigned to 935
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Comment by Tammy⚓️Girl on May 27, 2019 at 9:04am
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kteachersailormom, awww, very nice you got to talk to your son.
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We got our first phone call yesterday! So good to hear his voice. And he sounded wonderful. Still has his humorous side which let me know he was doing ok. Connection was not the greatest. Sometimes we could barely hear him, other times he was muffled BUT WE GOT A CALL!! Happy Memorial Day!
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Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on May 23, 2019 at 1:13pm
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Surprised is an understatement! I was not expecting to see him as soon as I walked in the door to PIR - it caught me so off guard that I burst out crying lol! And I wanted to hug him so bad but he literally whispered under his breath "no hugs now mom, but later". And after PIR I did get the biggest hug ever!
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B'sNukeMom- you made me smile. And who wouldn't be so proud to walk in and see that?!!! I bet you were super surprised. Now I am wondering if my recruit has gotten any "taller?" Lol
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This was him working at his own PIR - before the ceremony he was passing out programs when we walked in (I can't even tell you how surprised I was when we walked through the door and he was right there!) and then he was directing people in the aisles.
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As my son told us the story - when he got to boot camp they asked him how tall he was. He replied 6'3" and they responded "you are actually 6' 3 3/4" - go stand over there". And from that he was put in the 904 division and was made a body snatcher lol! He later said they told him they wanted someone big enough to be able to "catch" someone if they were to pass out.
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B'sNukeMoM- thank you for the information. Hopefully I will soon know more about his duty and get to talk to him soon. Do you know how they are picked for these duties?
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kteachersailormom - he might not be in a "performing" division. My son was in division 904 back in 2012 and he was a "body snatcher". His job was to catch anyone that might pass out during PIR! He also handed out programs at PIR. There's other duties besides musical.....And they do usually work 3 PIR's.
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New to the group but very excited to hear my son is in 935. A bit shocked at first with no musical talent, but I hear it is a good thing. Best of luck to all of our recruits!
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