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in the ultimate final exam, Battle Stations, a collaboration of 12 exercises lasting 12 straight hours in the middle of the night in either Chicago’s freezing winters or humid summers.
Battle Stations exercises are modeled on actual incidents ranging from transporting injured shipmates during a fire, taken from a similar situation on board the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in July 1967, to controlling and repairing shipboard structural damage similar to the events of the terrorist attack on USS Cole in October 2001. Battle Stations is designed to test the ability of the recruits to work as a team.
After much sweat and sleeplessness, recruits earn the right to be called a Sailor. That honor is bestowed at the Hat changing ceremony, where they trade the “Recruit” ball cap for one with “NAVY” embroidered in gold across the front. “The highlight of my RTC experience was working with junior recruits and teaching them drill techniques,” said Haynes, who will be attending engineman school in Great Lakes, 111. “My goal is to retire as a SEAL and become a member of the team.”
As family and friends arrive for the graduation ceremony, all eyes are on the recruits marching in formation in their crisp dress uniforms. Under Secretary of the Navy Susan Morays Livingstone said, “Here we are taking young men and women from all walks of life, and in just nine weeks, transforming them into motivated, skilled Sailors who will soon be deployed worldwide to defend our way of life.” Houston L. Haynes in now one of those Sailors.
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