Rear Admiral Chuck McGrail, U. S. Navy [Ret.] was the co-founder of The Flag & General Officers' Network.  Earlier in 2011, TFGON was approached by the Rear Admiral James J. Carey Foundation [ www.AdmiralCareyFoundation.org ] with an offer to fund a scholarship within TFGON in memory of Admiral McGrail, who passed away in early 2000. 

The scholarship is to be focused on youth leadership training and is meant for college juniors, seniors, and graduate students with an interest in careers in national and international public policy.  These scholarships will be used to fund an annual fellowship in the Washington Scholars Fellowship Programs [ www.WashingtonScholars.org ] with a view towards providing training and education and credentials to enable the recipient to pursue a career path in federal service or related national public policy work. 

TFGON's Co-Directors of this program are Rear Admiral Don Loren, U. S. Navy [Ret.] and Major General Donna Barbisch, U. S. Army [Ret.].

Applicants are intended to come from U. S. military veterans plus the sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters, nieces and nephews of TFGON members.  The program is expected to be ready for implementation in Fall 2011.  We have had several graduates of the Washington Scholars Fellowship Programs in attendance at TFGON's Quarterly Networking Receptions and it is expected that these fine examples of youth leadership will serve as mentors for the scholars participating in this program.

We hope to have the systemics and procedures for application to this program available on this web page by the end of September 2011.  Until those are completed, parallel and very similar procedures for this TFGON program are available on the Washington Scholars website.  

Questions in the interim should be referred to Rear Admiral Jim Carey at RADMCarey@aol.com