Jeff Bridges' character, Bill Django, is based on Lt. Col. Jim Channon, who actually wrote the First Earth Battalion Field Manual .
The First Earth Battalion was officially disbanded. The goat lab was shuttered. The soldiers went back to reading maps and shooting rifles. The Men Who Stare At Goats
The Men Who Stare at Goats is both a 2004 non-fiction investigative book by journalist Jon Ronson Jeff Bridges' character, Bill Django, is based on Lt