Battle Stations is a 12-hour event held to test your entire division on how well you've absorbed everything you've learned so far. Excitement sets in and now you're ready for the final test: Battle Stations.
Week Seven: At this point, you're nearly finished with boot camp.You will also go through the confidence course again, further solidifying the concept of teamwork and camaraderie. This week also finds you and your shipmates inside the gas chamber, being exposed to tear gas while you and everyone else recites name and social security number.
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This week you will learn how to put fires out, how to properly don fire safety gear in case you must fight a fire on board ship, how to open and close watertight doors, and operate fire fighting equipment.
This is the halfway point in your academic training, as well as the week during which you will take your graduation photos in preparation for your Pass and Review ceremony. You will go through safety training, then weapon training in a supervised range environment. This is often called the PT0, because it is the starting point from which you will improve. Your first PT (physical training) test is administered during week three, the areas tested are 1.5-mile run, push-ups, and sit-ups. You will do this training on a portion of a real ship situated in a large hangar. Week Three: In a hands-on environment, this week you will learn first aid techniques, signaling with flags, the proper procedure to board and disembark a ship, and basic seamanship.You will learn to rely on your shipmates, and the confidence course is a big start. The focus for this week of training is team-building. This week you will begin physical conditioning and participate in a confidence course. You will get used to waking up at 0600, I promise. Week Two: Week two finds you tired, irritable, and wondering what the heck you got yourself into.Once you've finished processing, then the real fun starts. If you haven't yet memorized your social security number, you will want to before you leave for boot camp, you'll be writing it on everything. You will fill out a lot of forms regarding health, benefits, wages, direct deposit, insurance, the Montgomery G.I. Week One: During week one you will go through processing.