The Natural Guard is the precursor to the special operations force known as the First Earth Battalion. Like its successor, the Natural Guard is focused on creating an army of “super soldiers” using various New Age techniques. A former case officer in the ST-CIRCUS program — headed by CIA to supply arms and training to Tibetan anti-Communist rebels — started the Natural Guard under the aegis of SANDMAN in the late ‘60s, inspired by certain esoteric Tibetan Buddhist practices of ego annihilation.

Jocasta Menos was assigned to the Guard in January 1970 by her superior officer at the Army Security Agency. She stayed with the group for slightly more than a year before being recruited into SANDMAN. While there, her superior officer — and the Guard’s de facto commander — was Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Barnes Reinhardt.