Col. Bobby W. Jones Recently promoted Colonel Bobby Wayne Jones is the fourth of seven children born to the late Arlee and Earnestine Jones. He grew up in Altheimer, AR and graduated as salutatorian from Altheimer High School in 1979.

He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR in 1984 and doctorate of medicine from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 1990. He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center at Fort Gordon, Augusta, GA.

Subsequent assignments included Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC., and Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Operational assignments included brigade surgeon and flight surgeon duties for the famous "Rock of the Marne" Division. Deployments include the National Training Center, Joint Readiness Training Center, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo.

His next assignment was with the 67th combat Support Hospital in Wurzburg, Germany. He is a board certified internist and currently assigned a the Director of the Tuttle Army Health Clinic on Hunter Army Airfield, Savannah, GA.

Col. Jones maintains life memberships in the Arkansas Alumni Association, Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and the King- Tisdale Cottage Foundation. In 2006, he was one of ten African-American alumni selected by the University of Arkansas to receive the inaugural Silas Hunt Legacy Award. He is a member of the Thankful Missionary Baptist Church in Savannah, GA where he serves as a Sunday School Teacher and Co-Director of the Youth and Teen Ministry. He delivered his initial sermon in August of 2006 and will be ordained in December of this year. He is married to the former Corine Ackerson and they have one son, Bradley.