Staff

Col. Jeffrey R. Boobar ’86 serves as the VMI Inspector General (IG). Prior to being appointed as the Inspector General at VMI, Col. Boobar served twenty-three years as a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

In his capacity as the Inspector General, Col. Boobar reports to the Superintendent and is charged with inquiring into and reporting on matters which pertain to mission performance, efficiency, discipline, morale, effectiveness, and esprit de corps of the VMI community.

During his twenty-three years in the DEA, Col. Boobar held a variety of supervisory and investigative positions. He served as the Resident-Agent-in Charge of the DEA office in Burlington, Vermont; as the Country Attache of the DEA office in The Hague, Netherlands; and as a narcotics task force group supervisor in Denver, Colorado. In addition, he conducted regional, national and international drug trafficking investigations as a special agent in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Istanbul, Turkey. While posted to the DEA headquarters in Washington, D.C., Col. Boobar served as a congressional liaison officer and completed one year as a Congressional Fellow assigned to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Upon retirement from DEA in April 2014, Col. Boobar worked for JPMorgan Chase & Company as a vice president in their global financial crimes and compliance unit.

Prior to DEA, Col. Boobar served four years in the U.S. Army assigned to the Second Armored Cavalry Regiment stationed in West Germany. Col. Boobar is a graduate of VMI and the United States Army Inspector General School.

Col. Boobar is married to the former Audrey Ambrosini of Homewood, Illinois.