Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation to award $7 million in funds

CAMP PENDLETON – On July 30, the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation will award nearly $7 million in new scholarships to 2,300 deserving students of Marine Corps families. The event will take place at Camp Pendleton.

The student speaker for the event will be Ellyssa Aquino, a Fallbrook resident, who is a sophomore at California State University, San Marcos. Her father is a gunnery sergeant who has served for over 18 years and has inspired her to pursue a career in physical therapy after graduating from college.

The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation is the nation's oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarships to military children.

"Marines have always been the first to fight and now it’s our time to meet the fight for this generation of Marine children head on," said Margaret B. Davis, president and CEO, Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. "We have promises to keep, lives to impact, and nothing short of America’s future to shape. The need has never been greater and your support has never meant more for our troops, their families and our entire country."