But before Ross was a television staple in homes across the country, he was a U.S. Air Force military training instructor. And Bob Ross’ time in the military wasn’t short-lived. He enlisted at ...

Bob Ross was probably the nicest person who ever ... "The Joy of Painting," but a select few know him better as an Air Force military training instructor -- a drill sergeant, for you non-Air ...

Robert Norman Ross, a beloved TV personality with a paintbrush ... After 20 years in the U.S. Air Force, in which he eventually rose to the rank of first sergeant, the character he created for ...

BOB ROSS' TIME IN AIR FORCE INFLUENCED HIM IN ‘THE JOY OF PAINTING,' PAL SAYS "I think each of us at some point during our life has wanted to paint a picture," Ross says at the start of the ...

APPRAISER: They were all acquired locally and they were all done by Bob Ross when he was at Eielson Air Force Base in the '70s. And when he left the Air Force, he went back to the Lower 48 ...

Bob Ross' first on-air painting is on sale for $9.8 million ... of the TV artist's work over the past few years. "The driving force behind the increased demand for Bob Ross paintings seems ...

Television’s favorite painter, Bob Ross, is finally getting his museum ... in 1942 and spent two decades in the U.S. Air Force posted mainly in Alaska, where he learned to paint at an outpost ...

Bob Ross' signature in the corner of A Walk in ... Modern Artifact Ross spent two decades in the United States Air Force before becoming a painter. He famously credited his military career with ...

Bob Ross painting a landscape ... A Florida native and high school dropout, he moved to Alaska after joining the Air Force, where he spent two decades as a drill sergeant, earning the nickname ...