Colonel Bennet S. Jones was commissioned an Infantry Officer upon graduation from Officer Candidate School, October 1963. His first duty assignment was as Training Officer, 3d Training Regiment, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. | His subsequent duty assignments include: Company Commander, Company B-3, 3d Training Regiment, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Infantry Battalion Advisor, U.S. Army Military Advisory Command Vietnam, Phan Thiet, Vietnam; Training Center Advisor, U.S. Army Military Area Command Vietnam, Phan Rhang, Vietnam; Assistant Professor of Military Science, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida; Strategic Intelligence Analysis Officer, 5th Psychological Operations Battalion, Stuttgart, Germany; Brigade Adjutant, 3d Brigade, 3d Infantry Division, Aschaffenburg, Germany; Battalion Operations Officer, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry, 3d Infantry Division and Deputy G-3 Operations, 3d Infantry Division, Wuerzburg, Germany; Chief Test Analysis and Methodology Branch, U.S. Army Airborne Board, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Battalion Commander, 1st Battalion, 54th Infantry, 1st Armored Division, Bamberg, German; Chief of Staff, 26th Support Group and Heidelberg Military Community, Heidelberg, Germany; Chief, Management Information Branch, Management Information Division, Office of the Inspector General, Washington D.C.; Chief, Joint Exercise Support Branch, J-3 Training and Exercise, U.S. Readiness Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida; Chief, Joint Exercise and Training Division and U.S. Special Operations and U.S. Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. | Following retirement, he worked as a Real Estate Broker associated with Sun Cove Realty, Incorporated, Brandon, Florida.