Bob Ross is most widely known for his curly afro and “happy accidents” as the host of The Joy of Painting, a half-hour instructional television show that ran for over a decade from 1983 to 1994.

In late 1962, Secretary of the Army Elvis J. Stahr Jr. directed Under Secretary of the Army Stephen Ailes to conduct a survey of recruit training in the Army. This survey was conducted over a long ...