LT Charles Jeffries, II, USN, '67 was killed in an ambush aboard Naval Base Subic Bay on April 13, 1974. He was a CEC officer with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133.
From the Class of 1967's 50th Reunion Yearbook: "Following graduation, Chuck served as an Unrestricted Line Officer in USS Robison (DDG-12) before being selected for graduate school in Civil Engineering and subsequent transfer into the Civil Engineer Corps. He received a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering from Purdue University in 1971 and served in the Public Works Department at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard from 1971-73. Following Philadelphia, he was assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 home ported in Gulfport, MS. While deployed to the Philippines in April 1974 and commanding a construction detachment building a perimeter road around Subic Naval Base, he and two other Civil Engineer Corps officers were killed in a daylight ambush by insurgents later identified as HUK guerillas. Ironically, his former Commanding Officer in Philadelphia, Captain Thomas Mitchell (USNA ’53), was one of the officers also killed.
"Chuck was interred at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1976, the Seabee base in the Philippines was named Camp Jeffries in Chuck’s honor. It has since been decommissioned, and the plaque commemorating Chuck resides at the Seabee Museum in Port Hueneme, CA. To those of us who knew and loved Chuck, this was a cruel and tragic blow; a wonderful and purposeful life ended too soon.
Chuck was an all-State football lineman from Waynesboro, VA, a large, incredibly strong but gentle man, an unwavering Christian and a committed husband and father. He and his wife Ginny had two children, Doug and Amy. Amy is a successful hairdresser, has a son and lives in Greensboro, NC. Doug is a President with the Bank of America, has a stepson and lives in Jacksonville Beach, FL. Ginny later married William L. Sellers, a Submariner of USNA Class of 1968. They reside in Greensboro, NC, have a daughter Becky, who is a nurse practitioner and a mother of three children."
He is listed on the killed in action panel in the front of Memorial Hall.
http://usnamemorialhall.org/index.php/CHARLES_H._JEFFRIES,_II,_LT,_USN
