The Men Who Stare at Goats

[Ghetta Life]

Jim Channon’s First Earth Battalion was a conceptual excercise and "never 
became operational."  And I highly doubt it's been resurrected for "The War 
on Terror."  And it's not all that secret.  It was almost made into a TV 
series:

http://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_Chevalier_0901.htm

"Jim Channon’s First Earth Battalion (James B. Channon, The First Earth 
Battalion: Ideas and Ideals for Soldiers Everywhere [Fort Monroe, VA: United 
States Army Training and Doctrine Command, 1979]; reprinted at 
http://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_channon_0200.htm) never became operational. It 
was just a concept. He got the idea (from me, but we’ll get into that 
further down) for it while stationed in Hollywood as the Army liaison in 
charge of providing movie studios assistance and equipment on shows like 
M*A*S*H. At the time EST, Werner Erhard’s Gurdjieffian-inspired way of 
finding "it" by keeping an audience secluded in the same room for sixteen 
hours while submitting it to verbal abuse, was in full swing, and very 
popular with the Beverly Hills elite. Jim attended a few meetings and 
realized how close EST training was to boot camp, and so he shot a video 
presentation to promote the concept of the First Earth Battalion which was 
produced with the help of the Arica Institute. That’s about as far as it 
got: Carter didn’t get re-elected, the moral equivalent of war was quickly 
forgotten, and Jim’s video has been sitting on a shelf at West Point ever 
since which is where I finally saw it."


http://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_channon_0200.htm

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.

A 51 page PDF of that document is available:
http://arcturus.org/field_manual.pdf

Ghetta


>From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>
>Ronson, Jon.  The Men Who Stare at Goats.
>New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
>
>In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the 
>U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted military practice -- and indeed, the 
>laws of physics -- they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of 
>invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, 
>kill goats just by staring at them.
>
>Entrusted with defending America from all known  adversaries, they were the 
>First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're 
>back and fighting the War on Terror.
>
[snip]
>
>The Men Who Stare at Goats reveals extraordinary and very nutty military 
>secrets at the core of George W. Bush's War on Terror.

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