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900's division sailors

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900's division sailors

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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 Mari on March 16, 2009 at 5:19pm
Cheryl congrats on the letter. I know its great to hear from your daughter. I'm anticipating Wednesday so much, time to stalk the mailman again, lol.
Comment by Mari on February 27, 2009 at 8:20am
Congratulations on your first letter!!!!! Its such a great feeling, right?
Comment by Vivian and Glen H. on January 4, 2009 at 7:30pm
All - our son graduated yesterday (1/2). I'll just say this - it is everything you expect and a lot more. The tradition, military courtesy, patriotism exhibited by everyone in the building is just awesome. As an aside...this morning we were coming out of the Navy Exchange (store) on base around 0800 when all of the sudden, all over the entire base, everyone in uniform stopped, turned in one direction where the sound of the national anthem was being played over a sitewide PA system, came to attention and held a long salute. Evidently the colors were being raised. It was just another really neat moment that reminded my wife and I what our son has become part of. I got chocked up just standing there on the sidewalk. Anyway, here are some details from the PIR ceremony yesterday, listing what the 900 Divisions did who were there. The Honor Guard was from 907. The Drill team (rifles), bands and Bluejacket Choir were from Division 909 and the State Flags were carried by Division 908. All of them did an awesome job. I put a couple pictures on my site and captioned them with the division number so you can search them from the photos tab...but they haven't been approved by the admin yet. Hopefully that will happen tomorrow. You folks ENJOY your PIR weekend!
Comment by Vivian and Glen H. on December 25, 2008 at 4:14pm
PNDad - My son is in 907 and we'll be taking pictures at PIR on 1/2. I'll put them on my page from the hotel, probably on Saturday. If anyone finds pix from 12/24 PIR drop me a note! My son was in that one yesterday and if I can find video I can find him based on what he told me today.
Comment by Vivian and Glen H. on December 21, 2008 at 2:21pm
Caress - any pix from your PIR?
Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on December 15, 2008 at 9:49am
Yes, they can buy phone cards at the Exchange - it's just a matter of when they get to go there. I believe in our son's division, they sent a couple of recruits over to the Ex every few days and they were allowed to bring stuff back for their divisionmates as long as their division mates had cash to pay for it.

Our son left for boot camp with $15 in his wallet, a few weeks before graduation he asked if we could send him a few singles - so he would have some small bills if someone was making an exchange run.
Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on December 15, 2008 at 9:47am
Have you heard about the "Blue Candle Lighting" being scheduled on Christmas Day? It is a way to honor those Sailors that will not be home for Christmas. What a nice tribute to our Sailors!

Please go to Events and click on Blue Candle Lighting, we are tracking how many candles will be lit in our Sailors' honor and where you are located.

Let's do this in our "Navy for Moms" style - can we get 9000 plus candles lit on Christmas Day?!!
Comment by Vivian and Glen H. on December 13, 2008 at 9:25am
Donna - for sure we'll post some pix of the 2 Jan PIR - maybe we can catch some of the 908 kids in there. Glen
Comment by Vivian and Glen H. on December 1, 2008 at 8:01pm
Gang - each class (PIR) has a "900" division. Division 907 is the designation for the 900 division graduating on 1/2; Division 908 graduates on 1/9, Division 909 graduates on 1/16, etc. These divisions are picked for "performance" experience like band, choir, flag, rifle teams ... plus kids with athletic and/or military experience (like military schools)...plus ASVAB scores. Our son is in 907, and indicated it took about a week to get their division "filled out". They "pick" them over the first couple of days I believe. So each 900 division has their own cadre of percussion, flags, rifles, body snatchers, etc. It will be really interesting to heaer these stories on PIR day! Glen
Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on November 19, 2008 at 9:27pm
All 900 divisions are performance - band, choir, drill - for graduation - they also have other duties like handing out programs, keeping order, etc.
 

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