Blown for Good - Marc Morgan Headley [25]
I got through another day of dish washing without incident. At the end of the day I had to go get some boxes from another part of the Complex and bring them to the EPF In-Charge before I could secure for the night.
When I arrived at the EPF I/C’s office, I knocked and was asked to come in.
I was amazed at the office itself. Everything in the Vehicle Repair Unit area, which was where his office was located, was covered in dirt. However the interior of his office was well decorated with nice furniture and tons of sea-related items such as wood tillers, small model boats, etc. There were at least three or four deep blue plush couches and very nice wood coffee tables. The carpet was a bit worn but matched the overall design and motif of the room.
The EPF In-Charge was sitting at his giant wood desk with his feet perched on top of it. He was smoking a cigarette and reading a magazine. He put it down as I walked in, I could have sworn it was some kind of Playboy or Penthouse. He looked like the polar opposite of what I had seen so far. Here was the guy that was in charge of the whole operation and he had not a worry in the world. He motioned for me to place the box on the desk and as I did he said that I was “dismissed.”
As I left I couldn’t help but realize that I hadn’t seen the EPF I/C very often since I had arrived and he probably had been in the office the entire time.
The next day I completed the last lecture. It was all about how the world is one big public relations spin and anyone who wants to rule the world needs to know public relations. In the Sea Org there was a post called the Public Relations Officer and Hubbard said over and over, “it is a P-R-O world” and “P-R-O is king!” While I listened to the tape, I thought of the EPF In-Charge talking to his seniors about how hard he was working at getting people through the program. Then I realized he was probably in his office right this second, hard at work on this month’s centerfold.
I started my next course, which was a compilation of short issues written by Hubbard in the 60s and 70s about how to do things the “Sea Org” way. It included the most mundane things such as how long to spend in the shower and always to wear sandals! There was an entire issue about the type of uniforms that would be worn by who and when, etc.
After lunch, we had our normal muster with the entire EPF. Some person from the local Central Training Organization had come to tell us about a revision being made to the Estates Project Force courses. She told us that the different levels of training were being revised and The Keys to Competence Course was no longer a requirement to complete the Estates Project Force. That meant that anybody on the EPF that was in the middle of that course could finish the EPF right now!
Of the 50 people on the EPF, there were about five on that course. Those five people were happy to be getting out of there. Me, I only had to finish the Basic Sea Org Member Course and I, too, would be able to get out of there.
That night while cleaning in the galley, out of nowhere, about 50 people came running through and started scrubbing the floors with toothbrushes! It was like something out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Like a flock of black birds had swooped in and landed on the floor of the galley. They were all dressed in black t-shirts, black shorts and black socks with black boots. They looked similar to EPFers, but these people looked horrible. While EPFers mostly had a “newbie” look to them and were unhardened, these people had a withered look to them. None of the women had any make-up on. Most