peashooter85:L. Ron Hubbard in World War II,“By assuming unauthorized authority and attempting to pe
peashooter85:L. Ron Hubbard in World War II,“By assuming unauthorized authority and attempting to perform duties for which he has no qualifications, he became the source of much trouble… This officer is not satisfactory for independent duty assignment. He is garrulous and tries to give impressions of his importance. He also seems to think he has unusual ability in most lines.” —US Naval Attache to Australia, report on Lt. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard’s fitness for command.Founder of the Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard had many grandiose claims about his early life, that he could read and write by the age of 3, he was the youngest Eagle Scout in Boy Scout history, that he learned under mystics in India, magicians in China, and hung out with brigands in Tibet. In truth most of this was bullshit, as was his many military service claims. Hubbard liked to claim that he was a gallant US Navy officer, claiming that he served in all theaters of the war, had the rank of “Commodore of Corvette Squadrons”, was badly wounded, and was awarded twenty one medals and palms for his service.Throughout Hubbard’s career he made such grand claims, and his supposed Naval service became such a central theme in Scientology that the elite organization within the church, the Sea Org, wears navy style uniforms.Hubbard’s military records tell a different story, showing that through most of his World War II Naval career, he earned few medals, had the rank of Lieutenant, and spent most of his time either training or performing administrative duties, first in Australia, then later in the US. Hubbard only had two commands. His first command was the USS YP-42, a fishing trawler converted into a patrol boat, based out of Boston. Hubbard commanded the patrol boat barely two months before being relieved of duty after constantly arguing with senior officers.In 1943, Hubbard took command of the USS PC-15, a subchaser which patrolled the Pacific Coast. On May 19th the PC-15 detected sonar readings of what could have possibly been an enemy submarine. Near Cape Lookout, Oregon, the area was known for sonar anomalies, but Hubbard insisted that the readings were an enemy submarine. Over the next two days, PC-15 dropped its armament of 35 depth charges at the sonar blip. He was joined by two blimps and several Coast Guard patrol vessels, which he took temporary command of. In an 18 page after action report, Hubbard claimed he sunk the Japanese submarine, claiming to have found wreckage, an oil slick, and claiming the blimps and patrol boats sighted the submarine. However, he took no samples of the wreckage or oil slick, and the reports of the blimps, and Coast Guard vessels did not substantiate his claims. The Navy concluded that no Japanese submarine was present at the incident, and that the sonar readings were merely an anomaly. After the war, Japanese records would confirm that Japanese subs never went near the area.The PC-15 then headed south toward San Diego to participate in exercises. After the exercises, Hubbard decided to bombard an uninhabited American Island for shits and giggles. The PC-15 fired several rounds of 3-inch deck gun shells, as wells as opening fire with machine guns, rifles, and pistols. It turns out, the islands were not uninhabited islands, but the Coronado Islands belonging to Mexico, which were inhabited at the time by Mexican Navy personnel. The Mexican Government lodged a formal complaint, and Lt. Hubbard was relived of his command.After World War II, Hubbard would go back to science fiction writing, spend some time with a famed rocket scientist to perform a series of sex magic rituals which involved masturbating on a sacred parchment in order to summon a goddess, and wrote diabetics, which became the foundation of Scientology. His commission in the US Navy was officially deactivated in 1950. -- source link
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