This is the story of the First Earth Battalion.
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No figure looms larger over this story than Major General Albert Stubblebine III. In 1981, Stubblebine was a man at the peak of his career. As the commanding general of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), he presided over 17,000 soldiers, 16 military bases, and a budget in the hundreds of millions. This is the story of the First Earth Battalion
By the mid-1980s, the house of cards began to fall. Albert Stubblebine was forced into early retirement after he was passed over for promotion. The Pentagon brass, having recovered from its brief New Age fever, decided that meditating generals were not a good look. In 1981, Stubblebine was a man at the peak of his career
The program aimed to create a kinder, gentler military ("Warrior Monks"), yet often found itself operating in ethical gray zones regarding the use of, and experimentation on, human beings.
But as Ronson famously discovered, the truth is funnier than fiction—and far more disturbing. Beneath the punchline about psychic spies lies a true story of $20 million squandered on New Age mysticism, a Lieutenant Colonel who believed he could walk through walls, and a secret unit so delusional that it inadvertently paved the way for the torture scandals at Abu Ghraib.