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* [[Frank Dux]] – American martial artist, fight choreographer and author who claims he was on covert missions to Southeast Asia while serving with the [[United States Marine Corps]] and was awarded the [[Medal of Honor]], and that he was also a [[CIA]] field officer. Dux served in the [[United States Marine Corps Reserve]] from 1975 to 1981, but was never sent overseas, never received the Medal of Honor, and was never recruited by the CIA.
* [[Joseph Ellis#False claims of combat service and anti-war leadership|Joseph Ellis]] – American professor and historian who claimed a tour of duty in the [[Vietnam War]]. He
* [[L. Ron Hubbard]] – Science fiction author and founder of [[Scientology]]. The [[Church of Scientology]] presents Hubbard as a "much-decorated war hero who commanded a [[corvette]] and during hostilities was crippled and wounded".<ref name="Lamont">[[#Lamont|Lamont]], pp. 19–20</ref> According to Scientology publications, he served as a "Commodore of Corvette squadrons" in "all five theaters of World War II" and was awarded "twenty-one medals and palms" for his service.<ref name="Rolph p16">[[#Rolph|Rolph]], p. 16</ref> He was "severely wounded and was taken crippled and blinded" to a military hospital, where he "worked his way back to fitness, strength and full perception in less than two years, using only what he knew and could determine about Man and his relationship to the universe." Hubbard's official Navy service records indicate that "his military performance was, at times, substandard", that he was only awarded a handful of campaign medals and that he was never injured or wounded in combat and was never awarded a [[Purple Heart]].<ref name="LATimes-1990-06-24">{{cite news|author=Sappel, Joel |author2=Welkos, Robert W. |title=The Mind Behind the Religion, Chapter 2: Creating the Mystique: Hubbard's Image Was Crafted of Truth, Distorted by Myth |url=http://www.latimes.com/business/la-scientology062490,0,2050131,full.story |work=Los Angeles Times |date=1990-06-24 |access-date=2009-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612145705/http://www.latimes.com/business/la-scientology062490%2C0%2C2050131%2Cfull.story |archive-date=June 12, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Most of his military service was spent ashore in the [[continental United States]] on administrative or training duties. He briefly commanded two [[Anti-submarine warfare|anti-submarine vessels]], {{USS|YP-422}} and {{USS|PC-815}}, in coastal waters off [[Massachusetts]], [[Oregon]] and [[California]] in 1942 and 1943, respectively.
* [[Jonathan Idema]] – American [[con artist]] who claimed to be a [[United States government]]-sponsored [[United States Special Operations Forces|Special Forces operative]] in [[Afghanistan]], and that he had 12 years of Special Forces service, 22 years of combat training, and 18 years of covert operations experience. In actuality, he served in the Army from 1975 to 1984 primarily in the [[United States Army Reserve|Reserve]], and while he did serve with the 11th Special Forces Group, it was purely as logistical support. He never saw combat and was never sent overseas. Convicted of fraud in 1994 and later convicted in 2004 by an Afghan court of capturing and torturing citizens he believed were terrorists.
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