Jim Channon
Military Person
'Men Who Stare at Goats': Ronson on Film, Psychic Warfare...weapons are subliminal music, disarming hugs and symbols of peace (like baby lambs). In 1979, a lieut. colonel in the U.S. Army named Jim Channon imagined just that, and wrote his ideas down in a 125-page confidential report called "The First... In this article: Jon Ronson, Jim Channon, The Men Who Stare at Goats, George Clooney, U.S. Army, Stanley McChrystal, U.S., and Grant Heslov |
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The Huffington Post | November 18, 2009
John Sergeant: How My Involvement with The Men Who Stare at Goats Was Erased Entirely
...a mass of data about obscure military research into enhancing human performance in the early 1980s. This included Lt Colonel Jim Channon's remarkable First Earth Battalion manual, which envisioned a revolutionary new cadre of...
In this article: Jon Ronson, George Clooney, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Goat, John Alexander, Grant Heslov, George Bush, and Legal advice
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Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats -- the First Earth Battalion Wants You!
Read More: Cenk Uygur, Environment, Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Jim Channon, Jon Ronson, Jonathan Kim, Kevin Spacey, Meditation, Movie Reviews, Rethink Reviews, The First Earth Battalion, The Men Who Stare At Goats, The...
In this article: The Men Who Stare at Goats, Jon Ronson, Jeff Bridges, Snickers, and Ewan McGregor
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Honolulu Star Bulletin | November 15, 2009
The man who didn't really stare at goats
The film on the "First Earth Battalion" is based on Hawi resident Lt. Jim Channon's career POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Nov 15, 2009 The American army's battered disillusionment with Vietnam was still some years away when Lt. Jim Channon...
In this article: The Men Who Stare at Goats, Vietnam, Django, Pentagon, Jeff Bridges, and Goat
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TIME | November 08, 2009
'Men Who Stare at Goats': Ronson on Film, Psychic Warfare
In this article: Jon Ronson, The Men Who Stare at Goats, George Clooney, Goat, U.S. Army, U.S., and Stanley McChrystal
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washingtonpost.com | November 05, 2009
Ann Hornaday reviews 'The Men Who Stare at Goats' and 'A Woman in Berlin'
...denying the seductive power of this what-might-have-been scenario, and Bridges -- as a character based on the real-life Lt. Col. Jim Channon, who really did try to develop a squad called the First Earth Battalion -- sells it with disarmingly...
In this article: The Men Who Stare at Goats, George Clooney, Clark Gable, Nina Hoss, The Informant, Jeff Bridges, Good Night, and Good Luck, and Ewan McGregor
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Jim Channon was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army. Most notably he is remembered for creating the First Earth Battalion manual. Many of the ideas contained in this and the outcomes of putting such concepts into practice have been documented by journalist Jon Ronson in his book The Men Who Stare At Goats.
Channon is currently retired from the Army and resides in Hawaii.
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