When I was in the Army at Yuma Proving Ground a lifetime ago, the Commanding Orifice got bored and decided the "staff" needed some training, so he hired a prof from Arizona Western University (a JuCo known locally as "Arizona's Worst College") to come in and teach us all something.

The "staff" - consisting of 26 military and 360 feathermerchants (civil service employees to the uninformed) - were arbitrarily split in half, and I was soooooooo fortunate to be assigned to the first group, which took the classes.

The "perfessor" spent all but approximately one hour of the three months of "classes" trying to get the difference between "effect" and "affect" clarified for the students. I don't think the esteemed professor ever did get it figured out.

At the end of the first group's classes the CO requested an "evaluation" of the course from all those who took it.

I think I was the only one who actually turned anyting in.

I got called in to "debrief" with the CO. We had a nice chat.

Nobody else ever took the course.

John