Whoa. I found this - apparently the concept, which was never adopted by DOD, was developed even beyond the original proposal I found nearly a decade earlier.
The First Earth Battalion was the name proposed by Jim Channon, an American Soldier who had seen service in Vietnam, for his idea of a new US military to be organised along New Age lines. Such a battalion was never formed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Earth_Battalion
http://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_channon_0200.htm
Now I'm interested in reading The Men Who Stare At Goats...which someone recently mentioned they were reading.
Richard's $.02 
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