Col. Charles Williams, U.S. Army retired, is the Senior Army Instructor for the Waynesville (Missouri) High School Junior ROTC program. He enlisted in the Army as a military policeman in 1980 and was commissioned as an armor officer through Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1985, retiring in January 2013. He served at every level of command from platoon leader to brigade commander and deployed to Grenada, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq. He is pursuing a doctorate in leadership from the University of Central Missouri.