The First Earth Battalion was the name proposed by Lieutenant Colonel Jim Channon, a U.S.soldier who had served in Vietnam, for his idea of a new military of supersoldiers to be organized along New Age lines. A book of the same name was published in 1982.
Channon believed the Army could be the principal moral and ethical basis on which politics could harmonize in the name of the Earth. He declared that the First Earth Battalion's primary allegiance was to the planet Earth.[3] Channon envisioned that the First Earth Battalion would organize itself informally: uniforms without uniformity, structure without status, and unity powered by diversity, and members would be multicultural, with each race contributing to "rainbow power".[4] He also proposed as a guiding principle that members of the First Earth Battalion seek nondestructive methods of conflict resolution because their first loyalty is to the planet.[5]
Warrior Monkedit
Channon adopted the term "warrior monk" for potential members of the First Earth Battalion.[6]
Credoedit
According to the book Mind Wars by Ronald McRae, each member of the First Earth Battalion would be sworn to uphold a credo of "high commandos and guerrillagurus":
I have the capacity and therefore the duty to contribute to the development of myself, my associates, and our planet, simultaneously, now!
I will organize a self-supporting high commando group that will create and perform evolutionary breakthrough actions on behalf of people and planet. One people, one planet.
I will then pass on this concept to others who are capable of generating further self-organizing commando teams.
I will await the time when my group can connect naturally with others at higher and higher levels of awareness and performance — the Natural Guard.
^Thomas, B. (2006). Immortal Combat: Portrait of a True Warrior. Berkeley, CA: Blue Snake Books.
^Ronson, J. (2004). The Men Who Stare at Goats. New York: Simon & Schuster.
^Grant De Pauw, L. (2000). Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present. Oklahoma City, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
^McRae, Ronald M. (1984). Mind Wars: The True Story of Government Research into the Military Potential of Psychic Weapons. New York: St. Martin's Press.
^Ferguson, M. (1980). The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in Our Time. Los Angeles, CA: J.P. Tarcher, Inc.
^Druckman, D., & Swets, J.A. (eds.). (1988). Enhancing Human Performance: Issues, Theories, and Techniques. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
External linksedit
First Earth Battalion Field Manual (text only)
First Earth Battalion Article
of original First Earth Battalion manual
January 01, 1970
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