Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation pledges $30,000 in scholarship support for children who lost their fathers

WASHINGTON, DC – The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, the nation’s oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarships to military children, has pledged up to $30,000 in post-high school scholarship support to each of the seven children who lost their Marine fathers in an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) blast in November 2013 aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

Upon graduation from high school, these children—today all under the age of 10 – will be eligible for funding from the Scholarship Foundation’s Heroes Tribute Scholarship Program for the Children of the F...