His assignment included many four-man night and day patrols in the jungle. He was placed on guard duty around Hill No. He was stationed at Camp LeJeune, N.C., and then served in Vietnam starting in January 1970. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in the winter of 1968 and went through basic training at Camp Pendleton, California, learning to become an ammunition explosive technician. He met his wife, Connie, while attending Willamina High and they married in December 1967. He attended school in Willamina and left Willamina High three months before he was set to graduate in 1967 and started working for the Willamina Brick Plant. and Lena Bobb, on a 240-acre farm where the Tribe’s Natural Resources Department building is now located. When he was 2 months old, his mother was killed in a car accident, and he was raised by his grandparents, Wilson Bobb Sr. He was born on April 7, 1949, to Faye Riggs White and Wilson Bobb Jr. Steve Bobb Sr., a Vietnam War-era Marine Corps veteran, three-term Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Council Member, and lifelong leader and advocate for Tribal and veteran causes, passed away on August 11, 2022, at the age of 73.
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