CLARKSVILLE, Tenn.- (CLARKSVILLENOW) Screaming Eagle Foundation provides scholarship opportunities for children of fallen or wounded Screaming Eagles and Fort Campbell Soldiers
The Screaming Eagle Foundation is now accepting applications for their Screaming Eagle Surviving Children’s Scholarship for the academic year of 2018.
Since 2016, the Screaming Eagle Foundation has provided the Screaming Eagle Surviving Children’s Scholarship benefitting the children of Fort Campbell’s FORSCOM soldiers who have been lost or injured since September 11, 2001. The scholarship is funded annually by a generous grant provided by The Screaming Eagle Foundation’s partners The Patriot Foundation, a North Carolina charity that started out by supporting the Soldiers of Fort Bragg, NC with similar programs. Their partnership spread to Fort Campbell in 2015 and has yielded $100,000 in scholarships to the children of the 101st and Fort Campbell’s soldiers and its past Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. The Screaming Eagle Foundation’s goal is to award another $50,000 to deserving military children again this year.
Applicants from birth and age 22 may apply if they are the child of a Fort Campbell Soldier who was lost due to GWOT Service, has a Purple Heart Medal as a result of wounds or was medically retired due to service connected disability or illness attributed to GWOT Service. Children not yet of college age, if selected will receive $2500 deposited to an approved 529 College Savings Plan. Full time college students if will receive $2,500 deposited to their student account if selected.
Randal Underhill, The Executive Director of the Screaming Eagle Foundation stated, “By investing in their children’s education, we are helping in a small way to acknowledge a debt of gratitude owed to our Nation’s heroes who served and continue to serve.”
Applicants can find and download the application online at the Screaming Eagle Foundation’s website at screamingeaglefoundation.org or by inquiring at Survivor Outreach Services located near them. Those with specific questions about eligibility or interested knowing more or supporting the programs of the Screaming Eagle Foundation can contact us through the 101st Airborne Division Association offices at Fort Campbell, KY at (931) 431-0199 or online at www.screamingeaglefoundation.org.