The First Earth Battalion: America's Strangest Military Experiment
The Why Files · Season 6 · Episode 35
A Vietnam War hero with zero casualties wrote a manual about warrior monks who hug daily and use ESP in combat. Instead of dismissing it, the US Army turned it into Project Jedi—a decades-long experiment in psychic warfare.
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Season
6
Episode
35
Air Date
23/Nov/2025
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A Vietnam War hero with zero casualties wrote a manual about warrior monks who hug daily and use ESP in combat. Instead of dismissing it, the US Army turned it into Project Jedi—a decades-long experiment in psychic warfare.
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