SW2(DV) Robert Dean Stethem

Established in 1985 through a fundraising drive by the Seabee Memorial Scholarship Association. (Now the Navy Seabee Foundation.) Robert Stethem was killed by Shiite terrorists during the June, 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847. As a member of the Norfolk-based Underwater Construction Team 1, Steelworker 2nd Class (Diver) Robert Dean Stethem had just completed an underwater construction job in Nea Makri, Greece. He was on his way home when terrorists hijacked his flight.

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