Bob dropped out of school at fourteen to work as a carpenter
with his father. At eighteen, he enlisted in the Air Force. Beginning as
medical records technician, he quickly rose to the rank of master sergeant. Bob
ruled the clinic at Eielson Air Force Base with an iron fist. But he disliked who
he'd become. "I was the guy who made you scrub the latrine, the guy who
screamed at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean,
tough person. I was fed up with it. I promised myself if I ever got away from
it, I wasn't going to be that way anymore." Bob took an oil painting class
at the U.S.O. When sales of his art outpaced his salary, he retired from the Air
Force. Today, Bob Ross is best remembered for his gentle voice, and for the “happy
little trees” he painted on his PBS show, “The Joy of Painting.”
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