Keywords: US Navy 070814-N-8848T-071 Recruits from Division 253 place Navy ball caps on their heads during a capping ceremony after ending training for Battle Stations 21 on board USS Trayer (BST 21) at Recruit Training Command.jpg en NAVAL STATION GREAT LAKES Ill Aug 14 2007 Recruits from Division 253 place Navy ball caps on their heads during a capping ceremony after ending training for Battle Stations 21 on board USS Trayer BST 21 at Recruit Training Command Battle Stations 21 is a grueling 12-hour test held entirely aboard Trayer of a recruit s skills in several shipboard evolutions including fighting fires and stopping floods It is also the final evolution that marks the recruit s final rite of passage into the Navy Division 253 is the third Special Warfare Operations division to go through recruit training The division is made up of rating candidates for special warfare operator special warfare boat operator Navy diver and explosive ordnance disposal EOD It is part of a new Navy and Special Warfare Command initiative to grow the ranks of SEALs littoral and riverboat squadrons dive units and EOD detachments U S Navy photo by Mr Scott A Thornbloom RELEASED 2007-08-14 070814-N-8848T-071 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 49657 U S Navy photo by Mr Scott A Thornbloom PD-USGov-Military-Navy United States Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal USS Trayer BST-21 |