bt wrote:

> Question from and outsider: what does it mean to be "busted to the Int
> decks"? I don't understand what "Int decks" is (are?). Thanks.

Dear bt,

See this Int Base aeriel photo.
http://www.lermanet.com/image/hemet-labeled.jpg

The Int Decks is a status, when an Int Base staffer is "restricted to the base", which means they did something that warrants them not being allowed to take the bus or drive to their berthing apartments at night, for fear they will completely defect or "blow." OSA Int heavies like Kurt, Heber, and lower down people who hold "hot" high responsibility or sensitive jobs, might also come to Gilman Hot Springs (the Int Base) to do the "Int decks." (Middle Management has their "decks" and even the PAC complex has their own separate "decks" programs off and on.)

The "Int Decks" takes place in and around the "OGH" (Old Gilman House---the house of the original Gilman Hot Springs owner) area. The buildings around that section of the Int Base is where the persons who are "restricted to the Base" stay overnight. It last days, to weeks to months. People leaving the Sea Org, being "routed out" from the Int Base staff positions, also hang out in the "OGH" area of the Int Base. People wanting to leave are the lowest of the totem pole, and are currently considered suppressive at the Int Base, and the 2005 "route outs" (people wanting to leave) were declared suppressive person.

There are LRH writings in general where Hubbard states that execs and staffers sometimes so caught up and overwhelmed in their daily duties, need a break, and need to go do some manual work, to get out of the ruts they get in. Hubbard wrote that manual work breaks were therapeutic for such individuals.

In the green Admin dictionary there is a definition of "EPF Category B" which covers this type of returning of a staffer to this lower status, while they are doing ethics conditions, manual work, and await reposting.

For the senior execs who hold the responsible top positions in the "church" bureaucracies, like Mark Yager, Ray Mitoff, Guilliaume Leserve, Mike Rinder, and the OSA execs, these long term tried and true loyal bureaucrats in the top ranks, they do the "decks" at the Int Base, out of public view, obviously, since the Int Base is so out of the beaten path, way out at Gilman Hot Springs. Then they return to their positions after however long their stay on the Int decks takes, for them to be considered in good shape again to go back to their trusted positions.

Lower down people the pecking order people are NOT returned to their positions like Heber, Kurt and Mike Rinder are.

Actually this is sort of an unofficial extra status that some people acquired, namely Ray Mitoff, Mark Yager, Mike Rinder. In those 3 top officials' cases, they've returned to their top roles. Heber also. Their steadfast loyalty and surviving the countless trips to the "decks" (and RPF for Ray and Mark Yager), they still earned their way back to their top positions.

At least that modicum of stability in the top ranks exists.

Just below them, the next rungs down, namely Mark Ingber, Wendell Reynolds, Liz Ingber, and almost all others, there is NOT the prospect of returning to their former high positions any longer, the next lower rung top officials have had their numerous re-try attempts and they now are re-posted in lower positions in the Int Base hierarchies, as I have posted elsewhere.

I don't think a single defected ex-Int Base staffer has not at least had 1 trip to the Int decks. Some former Int Base staffers have had numerous trips to the Int decks before they blew or routed out eventually.

http://www.lermanet.com/image/hemet-labeled.jpg (see the "OGH" area, that's where the Int Decks participants berth and hang out normally, but they can do their manual work anywhere on the whole Int property at times).

Heber works in the HGB building in Hollywood, but if he needs "cleanup" and the "decks", then Heber does the decks at Int.

The Int Base staff bureaucrats needing to do the "decks" would simply do them there at the Int Base.

OSA Int execs needing the decks, like Jim Morrow, I've seen do the Int decks in years past, and Kurt, the OSA heavies would do the decks at Int.

ASI staffers needing to do the decks, would do the decks at Int.

When one is on the decks, one gets sec checking galore usually. One is pretty closely kept track of, depending on the person's state of mind (staff with blow thoughts get personal "watches" to ensure someone's with them 24/7 and they don't go running off; people only move back to normal status once they lose their thoughts of desiring to take a hike and they seem cheerfully swinging along in full agreement with the group again, and after they do their "lower conditions" including amends to their organizations and their seniors they burdened with their admitted follies, failures and incompetences which they are obliged to admit to return to good graces).

Sec-checking, realization of one's follies, failures and goofs, remorse, then amends and a resumption of respect of the pecking order and a return of good feelings for their seniors and co-workers is the usual requisite to return to good graces after a trip to the "decks."

It is supposed to all happen in and around the "OGH" zone in the photo: http://www.lermanet.com/image/hemet-labeled.jpg

Chuck

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