In the summer of 1963, Bob was made Scheduling Officer for the USA JFK School for Special Warfare.
One of Bob's key jobs, along with his assigned senior non-commissioned officer, was to develop an efficient and accurate schedule for the School, which ran 7 concurrent courses of instruction during the earlier part of the buildup for the War in Vietnam.
Bob and his NCO developed a system of color coded cards representing 2300 or so individual items for the instruction to be offered during each session, which were then systematically mounted on a long vertical board to facilitate prompt (visual) proofing.
After only a couple of weekly scheduling runs, the system Bob and his NCO developed resulted in a total of only 2 or 3 errors.
This is bearing in mind that the period of time in which this system was designed and developed was prior to the advent of personal use computers, and totally dependent on manual effort.
It was more than likely agreed by most or all concerned that this system was well brainstormed, designed and developed, and certainly efficient.
President Kennedy paid for it, and got more than his money's worth!
