The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation has awarded $10 million in scholarships to more than 2,600 children of Marines and Navy Corpsmen for the 2022-23 academic year. This year’s announcement marks the largest scholarship award amount in the organization’s 60-year history.

Founded in 1962, the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation is the nation’s oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarships to military children, awarding over 50,000 scholarships valued at nearly $185 million for post-high school, undergraduate, and career technical education programs in all 50 states.

“Our Nation’s military families have made great sacrifices for our country, and if our country is to succeed and play a positive role in an international context, we must ensure access to postsecondary education for all our citizens. Therefore, it is our mission to honor those sacrifices by educating their children to be the next generation of America’s leaders,” said Lieutenant Colonel Ted Probert USMC (Ret.), the foundation’s president and CEO. “As we celebrate our 60th anniversary, we are incredibly proud to state we’re providing more support to Marine families than ever before.”

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