CDR Lee Dobler Scholarship

Established in 1979 by the Seabees in the four Atlantic U.S. Naval Mobile Con­struction Battalions and in the TWENTIETH Naval Construction Regiment. Commander Dobler was killed on 13 April 1974 on the U.S. Naval Base at Subic Bay in the Philippines, CAPT Thomas J. Mitchell, CEC, USN, Commander of the 30th Naval Construction Regiment, CDR Leland R. Dobler, CEC, USN, Commanding Officer of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133, and LT Charles H. Jeffries, CEC, USN, Officer in Charge of Detachment WALLABY of that battalion, were riding in a jeep on an inspection tour of a section of perimeter road which was being worked on by LT Jeffries detachment. The three officers were driving in an isolated area of the base in deep jungle along the boundary between the base and Bataan Province when unidentified terrorists ambushed them.

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