Lt Col Jose E. Colon, DMD, DMSc, is a staff forensic odontologist for the Charles E. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs, Dover Air Force Base. Colon serves as assistant to the director of Dental Operations for the Veterans' Health Administration in Washington, DC, and as a forensic dental consultant and educator for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, also in Washington, DC. He served as a professor at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology for 11 years.