Re: Dangers of the Purif

In article <3r34mg$671@crl9.crl.com> milne@crl.com (Andrew Milne) writes: >Well, here is a good example of somebody involved in the military who >received benefits from the Purification Program. This man started to use >drugs at the age of thirteen, and finally admitted to himself nine years >later that he was a drug addict. He decided to do something to get off >cocaine and other drugs before they destroyed his life totally. Here is >his story: > >"I joined the US military because I thought the discipline would help me >kick my habit and stay away from drugs, but as a gunner paratrooper, I >ended up using as much cocaine as I had in civilian life. About a quarter >of my division used drugs and we called ourselves the 'flying junkies.' >So I left the military after three years because of drug use. I obviously >needed something other than military life to help me handle my problem. I >began to drift in and out of various drug programs over the next five >years. However, it wasn't until I used L. Ron Hubbard's technology that I >was able to live a drug-free life. Since that time, I have been helping >others kick their addictions to everything from heroin to alcohol, using >the program." > >You will find this and many success stories from the Purification program >in The Scientology Handbook.

Sorry Milne, doesn't wash. I was in the Army for four years, and that 'story' wasn't written by anyone who was ever in the service. The military has its own terminology, and whoever wrote that piece didn't know the language.

"Gunner paratrooper" !? I never heard of such a term, and no one (since World War II anyway) refers to himself as a 'paratrooper'. "Airborne", or perhaps "air cav door gunner", are probably what you're trying to describe.

"..a quarter of my division used drugs.." !? A 'division' is 15,000 +- men - he's saying that 3,750 of them used drugs? Enlisted men, particularly in Infantry, have little or no opportunity (or desire) for social contact with anyone outside their unit, and would have no perception of what the rest of their 'division' are doing or thinking.

Those are not mistakes that any former serviceman would make. They are mistakes that a PR writer without military experience would make.

I see another empty, imaginary Scientology success story.

-- Georle