Colonel Charles A. Jones is a retired Marine Corps Reserve colonel.  Born in 1954, he is a native of his home town of Greensboro, NC and the only child of Elmer and Aileen Jones.

He graduated Oak Ridge Military Academy in 1973; Wake Forest University in 1977; and Campbell College School of Law in 1980.

He served in the Regular Marine Corps from 1981 to 1992 with most of 1981 devoted to his initial Marine Corps officer training.  He served in the Reserve Marine Corps from 1993 to 2011.  He was a judge advocate (military lawyer) while in the Marine Corps and the Marine Corps Reserve.

He is a Third Degree Master Mason in Greensboro Masonic Lodge Number 76 and a member of Greensboro’s Marine Corps League Detachment 260.

He is the author of four books.  Hawaii’s World War II Military Sites (2002) is a guide to the World War II military sites on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.  PEARL HARBOR’S HIDDEN HEROES (2017) is the story of the men who received Medals of Honor for actions in the Hawaiian Islands during World War II.  IWO JIMA’S BATTLEFIELD PROMISE (2018) is the story of two Marine Corps infantry officers from North Carolina who meet by chance on Iwo Jima during the battle there in 1945; they agree to meet after the war for a drink, but first they must survive combat on Iwo Jima.  B-29 “DOUBLE TROUBLE” IS “MISTER BEE” (2020) is a biography of his father Elmer C. Jones with heavy emphasis on his father’s service during World War II: 28 combat missions (bombing and photographic reconnaissance) over Japan in 1945 a B-29 “Superfortress” bomber as the crew’s radar operator.