The First Earth Battalion

[Tim Nice But Dim]

This is strange...


The First Earth Battalion: Dare to Think the Unthinkable, Ideas and Ideals for Soldiers Everywhere

By Jim Channon

Copyright © 1979 Jim Channon, all rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Jim Channon. Introduction and annotation by Joseph R. Svinth. Copyright © 2000, all rights reserved.

Introduction

In 1979, the Peoples’ Republic of China publicly reported that several thousand of its children aged 8-14 were capable of telepathy, clairvoyance, X-ray vision, or psychokinesis. [EN1] Having already heard about this program, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, and the US Army were simultaneously pouring billions of dollars into their own similar research.

The Army program was headquartered at Fort Meade, Maryland, and was part of the Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). Leaders included Generals Edmund Thompson and Albert Stubblebine, and Colonel John Alexander. [EN2]

Officers assigned to the US Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania [http://carlisle-www.army.mil/library/ris.htm] contributed research to the project, and "The First Earth Battalion" is essentially a textual copy of one group's unclassified briefing slides.

Although decidedly New Age, the War College project was not entirely theoretical. Colonel Alexander, for example, went on to become a leader in the Los Alamos National Lab's non-lethal weapons program. [EN3] Likewise, during the early 1980s Special Forces hired Richard Strozzi Heckler and other outside contractors to provide two A-teams, a total of 25 men, with training in biofeedback, aikido, and "mind-body psychology." In the latter program, a typical training day included running, swimming, "industrial-strength" calisthenics, and 1-1/2 hours of aikido practice. After six months, the soldiers were not aikido masters but they were quantifiably 75% more physically fit than when they started......

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[Anthony91]

WOW, I wish I had X-Ray vision. HEHEHEHE

[soma]

Too bad it would be useless. Unless seeing human bones gets you off.

[gaz]

Find a book called The Men Who Stare At Goats by a British journalist called Jon Ronsen, it covers a lot of relevant stuff, I've no idea how much of it's true though.

[Mr Gently Benevolent]

These super fighters were trained in Aikido, stop it already I am laughing, last time someone tried Aikido on me I bit him on the nose and his legs buckled like a ragdoll. If you guys like a good read about all this esoteric warrior stuff get your hands on US Gov document ST-CS-01-169-72

[RFSU]

Yeah I have read an artical of the "Goat Farm", all sounds a bit weird. Apparently the only real success they had was that one guy stopped a goat's heart with his mind and almost killed himself in the process.

[chuckster]

I think I remember seeing something like this in The X-Files. Or was it The Twilight Zone?

[sir-chimp]

Find a book called The Men Who Stare At Goats by a British journalist called Jon Ronsen, it covers a lot of relevant stuff, I've no idea how much of it's true though.


Is that the one were they try to kill it the goats with a stare?

[gaz]

Yeah, that's the one, it really is a great read, both funny and a little frightening, like I said though, I've no idea if the truth is stretched in it .