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*******BATTLESTATIONS*******
This is the final test for the recruits...the one that makes them sailors! This is an approximately 12-hour overnight drill, performed on a ship designed by Disney, so you know how realistic all is. They are presented with every situtation that they could encounter while deployed on a ship and are evaluated individually and in small teams on how they respond. At the conclusion of this, there is a capping ceremony where they trade their recruit ballcap for their sailor ballcap! This is their actual graduation. If there are any who fail the first time, they will be given another chance to go through and most all pass then. The majority pass on the first try.
They can start BattleStations a week before PIR...or the week of, depending on the number of divisions. Since there are 14 divisions in this PIR group, they will start the week before, most likely on Wed or Thurs night. They go in division order, starting with the lowest numbered divisions, and they go with brother divisions. The 800 and 900 groups go randomly. Up to 4 divisions can go at a time. Since they go with their brother divisions, then that would be 2 sets of brother divisions, or possibly one set with 900 or 800 (or both) added. Your recruits will tell you when they are going so be sure to ask. Please post in this discussion when you have a date for your division and I will put up a schedule in this group. They do not go on Fri or Sat nights because of Captains Cup on Sat....a fun sports competition between all of the divisions in the PIR. So the nights they do BattleStations can be:
Wed or Thurs (week before PIR), Sun, Mon, Tues, or Wed. NOTE: In the past, I have never seen them go Wed night during the week before PIR, but the 2/11 group, also a large PIR group, seems to have them scheduled then. So for large PIR groups, this may happen. Something a Chief said about Battlestations:
150-300 SRs go at a time, 3-10 of them will fail and have to repeat. The most important thing is TEAMWORK. If the SRs shut their mouths, listen, and work as a team, they should pass.
Here are the brother divisions in this PIR group:
75+76, 77+78, 79+80, 81+82, 83+84, 85+86
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Check out the BattleStations video on www.youtube.com Just type in "CNN BattleStations 21" and enjoy!
HOOYAH!
****BattleStations Schedule******
Wed, Feb 9th/Thurs Feb 10th Div 75, 76, 77, 78
Thurs, Feb 10th/Fri, Feb 11th Div 79, 80, 81, 82
Sun, Feb 13th/Mon, Feb 14th Div 83, 84
Mon, Feb 14th/Tues, Feb 15th Div 85, 86, 805, 913
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Permalink Reply by kelley (ship 04 div 805) on
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Div 805 is Feb 14th
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Permalink Reply by Scrappy1(Carol) on
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Thanks for the info. We talked to our son Saturday and I know that will be the last from him until "the call". Prayers to all our recruits and our families as well.
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Permalink Reply by Sailor's Wife 64 on
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My husband called me today and confirmed that division 086 will do Battlestations on the 13th-14th :)
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Permalink Reply by diannep on
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Thanks so much, Wife64. Putting it on the schedule now with 85, their brother division.
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Permalink Reply by RysMom23 on
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Thanks for the update on Battlestations. My recurit told me in his letter when his was set. i will have a prayer said this sunday at church for all the divisions that will be going this week. may our prayers guide them all through.
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Amen, RysMom. Praying for all of our new sailors making their "debut" next week!
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Here's another battle stations video. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/07/18/oppenheim.navy.disas...
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COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHEN THIS ACTUALLY TAKES PLACE...I STILL HAVE NOT BOUGHT THE PLANE TICKETS AND I AM VERY NERVOUS! COULD YOU PLEASE FILL ME IN IF THIS IS NORMAL TO BE THIS CLOSE TO PIR DATE? THIS IS MY ONLY SON AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT OTHER THAN LAST SAT HE WAS ABLE TO CALL ... HAS ANYONE HEARD FROM THEIR RECRUIT ON SHIP 09 / DIV 078?
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Permalink Reply by cajunldr(ship 03 Div 086) on
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The date for your division is Wed, Feb 9th/Thurs Feb 10th Div 75, 76, 77, 78
See a few replies above from Scrappy1, her recruit is in the same division of your son.
You should make your travel, hotel plans as soon as possible. If you son has made it this far, most likely he will make it through BS21.
You can also go to the PIR 02-18-2011 discussion on this site for much more information for this group and their brother/sister groups graduating the same day.
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thanks for the info..I am a first time mom on this and am very late in the game. lol .. my son has been very ill and struggling but he is certainly a fighter and I know he will not give up nor give in ! He will make it just not positive when. He advised me to hold off till gas chamber/ battle station 21 is complete?? any knowledge as to when the gas chamber is?
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