Ros hubbard biography definition

L. Ron Hubbard was the inventor of Dianetics and founder of Scientology. Born in Tilden, Nebraska in March , Hubbard grew up with his family in Helena, Montana. He was unusually well-traveled for a young man of his time due to his father's frequent relocations in connection with his service in the United States Navy. He lived in a number of locations in the United States and traveled to Guam, the Philippines, China, and Japan. He enrolled at George Washington University in to study civil engineering, but dropped out in his second year. While at GWU, he organized an expedition to the Caribbean for fellow students which looms large in his official biography but was a flop according to contemporary accounts. He subsequently spent time in Puerto Rico panning for gold, before returning to the United States, marrying his pregnant girlfriend, and embarking on a career as a "penny-a-word" writer.^[1]

The Church of Scientology depicts Hubbard in hagio

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L. Ron Hubbard/Navy

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The military career of L. Ron Hubbard saw the future founder of Scientology serving in the United States Armed Forces as a member of the Marine Corps Reserve and, between –50, the Navy Reserve. He saw active service between –45, during World War II, as a naval Lieutenant (junior grade) and later as a Lieutenant. After the war he was mustered out of active service and resigned his commission in

As with many other aspects of L. Ron Hubbard's life, accounts of his military career are much disputed.^[1] His account of his military service later formed a major element of his public persona, as depicted by his Scientologist followers.^[2] The Church of Scientology presents Hubbard as a "much-decorated war hero who commanded a corvette and during hostilities was crippled and wounded."^[3] According to Scientology publications, he served as a "Commodore of Corvette squadrons" in "all five theaters of Wor

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Life of L. Ron Hubbard from to

From his birth in until , L. Ron Hubbard was a failed student, a struggling writer, a low-ranking and oft-disciplined officer in the US Navy, and an occult practitioner. His early family life included following his father, a US Navy officer, to different bases around the world, and attending university for two years. In L. Ron Hubbard married his first wife Margaret "Polly" Grubb and they had two children. The couple struggled with finances as Hubbard wrote massa fiction. Hubbard had a short but disastrous stint in the US Navy, then immersed himself into occult practices, abandoning his first wife and marrying a second wife, Sara Northrup.

By the end of , Hubbard was making his first comments about what would become Dianetics.

Early life

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Tilden

Kalispell

Helena

San
Diego

Seattle

D.C.

Bremerton

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As the child of a Naval officer, Hubbard grew up in such diverse locale