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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 Lauracat19 on July 15, 2018 at 10:41am
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Thank you Tabitha! We are waiting anxiously!!! Best to and yours!!!
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Comment by Tabitha on July 15, 2018 at 8:43am
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Hi Laura and welcome to the family :) I think it depends on their ship date. Our Sailor just graduated from a 900 division on 7/6 and if I remember correctly He was able to call on the third or fourth Sunday after he had shipped out to BC. But I don't know if it's a guaranteed thing. It's my first time being a navy mama to and the one thing I learned was to always stay close to my cell. I hope you guys get a call today, it's so wonderful to hear from your SR when they are able to call. Best wishes to you.
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Hi. I am new to this site and to being a Navy mom my. My SR, Ship 02, Div 941, has not called. Anyone else have SR Un this div? My husband has read other posts that they may be calling today..... we are staying home by the phone!!??!!
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Comment by CPATM2015 on July 13, 2018 at 5:35pm
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Tabitha, thanks for sharing that info. I have been reading about all the different positions in this Division on the Navy Bootcamp website. Hopefully, I will get some answers soon. =D
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John and Yvonne, that is so awesome that you guys do this for the Sailors. All of my family is from that area, Smithfield, Newport News, Virginia Beach and we live about four hours away. Thank you for taking care of our sailors what a blessing you guys are.
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Hi CPATM2015, It could be possible that he is.....I think they call them house staff. Last Friday it was a lot of our Sailors division members standing watch during PIR and also directing the crowd so to speak. It was so great seeing, two things I noticed which was really awesome. The Sailor standing in front of us never broke from watch, did not smile or give any facial expressions at all until Liberty was called and then he smiled. It was so awesome. Then my friend happened to find her son (also in 900 division) and sat right in front of him, same for him, never broke watch until after PIR. It was such an awesome experience.
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Hi Tabitha, that's the funny thing about this. He played football and theater all 4 years of high school. He only played clarinet and bass clarinet in elementary school and Junior High. He never did choir (he would never sing in public; lol) and he never carried a flag. He was not in JROTC because they do not offer that here in our area. I did read that SRs will be pulled and placed in this division for other reasons, as well. I look forward to speaking with him to find out the details. Yes, Barbara, I will be watching all PIR's that he could potentially be performing in prior to his own! This gives me another reason to make sure I bring my camera to PIR. WooHoo!!
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Comment by John and Yvonne on July 13, 2018 at 9:42am
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Hello to all you Moms with sons and daughters in BC! Prayers for all of you while you wait for them to go to the School of Music.:)
My husband and I live in Virginia Beach, VA. just about 5-10 minutes from JEB Little Creek where the School of music is located. We have been here for the last 18 years and part of those years we have had several SOM Sailors, Marines, and Soldiers in our home. We open our home on the weekends and invite them to come over...on Saturday evening we get together at 5-9. We eat together and play board games, go mini golfing, etc. and on Sundays from 1-5, We have a sit down family meal with homemade bread and dessert and have a lot of fun together. We'd love to invite your sons or daughters over as well. Check out our page on this site to find out more about us. :)
Yvonne and John
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Comment by Barbara on July 12, 2018 at 10:12pm
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Hi CPATM2015. Just got a letter from my daughter in BC today and she is in Div 942 also. Apparently, for this training group, this is the FLAGS team. My daughter is holding the flag for American Samoa. So I would assume your son is possibly doing something similar. Tabitha is correct.... this is the division that performs at the graduations and either does drill, flags, band or chorus. Here is the good news.... your SR will be performing at their own graduation as well as the two previous and you will get to see him on the livestream of PIR. Sounds like a bonus to me! :)
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Hi CPATM2015 your SR is in a performing division. Did he do band, flags, chorus or ROTC in high school?
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