Recommended Innovation Articles (and Commentary) 8: “First Earth Battalion (1979 Army Field Manual, Unclassified)”
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If you remember the George Clooney movie “The Men Who Stare at Goats”- it was a strange but “based on some real events” (and wildely exagerated in Hollywood fashion) story about a special ops unit (coincidently called“Task Force Delta”- but not the same as the more well-known one from Fort Bragg (and Chuck Norris fame, cough, cough… Hollywood strikes again). This group adapted the “Delta” symbol in 1979 and just as it is used today by USSPACECOM in fact for different space applications and culture. The “Delta” is associated with change, innovation, difference, based in ancient Greek history and beliefs. This too was why LTC Jim Channon selected that symbol to represent this highly…
