The First Earth Battalion: America's Strangest Military Experiment
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America's Psychic Soldier Program: The First Earth Battalion
Discover how a Vietnam hero's "hippie field manual" accidentally revolutionized US military Special Forces training through psychic warfare concepts.
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- The US Army launched Project Jedi in 1979 to create "warrior monks" using unconventional, psychic-themed techniques.
- Lieutenant Colonel Jim Shannon's First Earth Battalion manual prescribed practices like daily hugging, herbal supplements, and mind control exercises.
- Although the CIA shuttered Project Stargate in 1995 due to a lack of proven psychic results, its core concepts were absorbed into modern Special Forces curricula.
- These absorbed techniques now include controlled breathing, mindfulness, and heightened sensory awareness, directly improving soldier performance today.
This briefing outlines the true story of the US Army's decades-long experiment in psychic warfare, tracing the philosophy from the unique combat record of Jim Shannon to its hidden legacy in contemporary military operations.
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I met Lt Col Jim Channon around 2010/2011. He was an amazing story teller/teacher. Welcomed everyone openly. He was a good and thoughtful listener. When he spoke no word was wasted. One of the nicest people i ever met. He passed away in 2017 at age 78. May he rest in peace. 💜
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The best part about these revealing videos it makes you think what other crazy things have our military tried to do since then.
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Top Comments (10)
Tried PDS debt. I now owe them too😢
The only way to break through walls is to loudly proclaim “Oh Yeah!” Having the Kool Aid helps too! 😆
US Army 18D here. Special Forces Medical Sergeant trained at Ft. Bragg. Can 💯 guarantee the medic boys are still staring at goats. But, for an entirely different reason 😂. Awesome stuff AJ and team. 🤘🏻🇺🇸
I met Lt Col Jim Channon around 2010/2011. He was an amazing story teller/teacher. Welcomed everyone openly. He was a good and thoughtful listener. When he spoke no word was wasted. One of the nicest people i ever met. He passed away in 2017 at age 78. May he rest in peace. 💜
Ive always gotten a kick out of the fact that The Men Who Stare at Goats is even funnier because its real lol
When my wife was a young girl, she dreamt often about a set of wooden stairs leading up to a green door. No matter what she did in the dream, it would continue until she climbed the stairs and tried the door- it was always locked. What was odd about the dream aside from its frequency, was that the wooden home construction didn't match anything in her native country, where everything was cement and brick. The dream ran for seven years. We met, began dating, and I took her to the US to meet my parents. She had told me about her dreams, but I didn't connect it all until we went to my apartment, where she said, "Those are the stairs from my dream. And that's the door." We went up and through the door, and she never had the dream again. I've never been able to explain it.
The best part about these revealing videos it makes you think what other crazy things have our military tried to do since then.
My dad used to stare at and hypnotise chickens when he was a kid, my grandad was not amused! 😂😂😂
If someone gave me coordinates to my own house I wouldn't even know it.
The trick to spoon bending is to realize there is no spoon at all.