Charles D. Melson was the Chief Historian for the US Marine Corps, at the Marine Corps University at Quantico, Virginia. Chuck also served as a joint historian with the US Central Command and US Special Operations Command. He is the author, co-author, or editor of several official publications and series, and was the recipient of the General
Edwin Simmons-Henry Shaw Award for public historians and the General Leonard Chapman Medal. His education includes degrees in Liberal Arts from St. John College, Annapolis, and in History and Fine Arts from Sonoma State
University, California. Chuck and his family currently live on Kent Island in Maryland.
