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Jeff Bridges as Bill Django, [8] a character based on Jim Channon, [9] who spent two years in the 1970s investigating new age movements, and subsequently wrote an operations manual for a First Earth Battalion. [9] Kevin Spacey as Larry Hooper. Larry represents the New Earth Army's dark side and wishes to use the non-lethal technologies in ...
First Earth Battalion Field Manual. 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.
James B. Channon (September 20, 1939 [1] - September 10, 2017) [2] was a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, New Age futurologist, and business consultant.He was primarily known for authoring the First Earth Battalion Operations Manual (1979, and later editions), [3] a popular book pointing the way toward a New Age transformation in the U.S. military.
Jim Channon, retired Army lieutenant colonel; author of the First Earth Battalion Operations Manual; New Age guru and consultant; John B. Alexander, retired Army colonel; proponent of non-lethal weapons and of military applications of the paranormal; introduced Channon's book to Stubblebine
During his career in the Army he showed considerable interest in esoteric techniques with his colleague Lieutenant Colonel Jim Channon in his First Earth Battalion manual. An example is neuro-linguistic programming , with which he hoped to enhance military members similar to "Jedi warriors" (according to his own account in his 1990 book The ...
Tyler Perry is spotlighting a lesser-known piece of World War II history in his new Netflix film, The Six Triple Eight. Based on a WWII History Magazine article by Kevin M. Hymel, the film, out ...
Major filming took place at the U.S. Army's Fort Huachuca complex in southern Arizona, with the co-located Libby Army Airfield used to portray the fictional Colfax Army Air Field. The story was used as a 1972 television pilot of the same title produced by Danny Thomas Productions starring Jim Hutton in the title role and Joan Van Ark as Lt Corum.
Actors Bill Pullman, Mickey Rourke, and Lukas Haas filmed scenes for the movie but were cut from the final film due to time constraints. [11] Publicity stills of Pullman (as Sgt. MacTae, in a scene opposite Brody and Chaplin) can be seen online, Haas is pictured in the booklet of the CD soundtrack, and one of Rourke's scenes was restored for ...