The National Guard Association of Tennessee (NGAT) has allocated $9,000.00 for Scholarship grants for 2009. The six (6) type Scholarships which may be awarded are as follows:

• One (1) $1,500.00 Scholarship is earmarked exclusively for an active member of the Tennessee Army or Air National Guard.
• Two (2) $1,500.00 Scholarships are earmarked for active annual or active life members of the NGAT. If an active annual or active life member of the NGAT does not qualify for the stipend, these scholarships may be awarded to a qualified son or daughter of an annual or life member of the NGAT to include the qualified son or daughter of life members who have retired or deceased.
• Two (2) $1,500.00 Scholarships are earmarked for active members of the Tennessee National Guard. If an active member of the Tennessee Army or Air National Guard does not qualify for the stipend, these scholarships may be awarded to any qualified son or daughter of an active member of the Tennessee National Guard.
• One (1) $1,500.00 Scholarship, earmarked for a current member of the Tennessee National Guard, or their qualified son or daughter, who were mobilized for "Operation Desert Storm", “Noble Eagle”, “Enduring Freedom”, and “Iraqi Freedom”. If a current member of the Tennessee National Guard does not qualify for this stipend, then it may be awarded to any qualified son or daughter of a former member of these units. "If no qualified applications are submitted, this scholarship may be converted, at the discretion of the committee, to a scholarship earmarked exclusively for an Active Member of the Tennessee Army or Air National Guard". This is a special Scholarship and will be dedicated to all the men and women of the Tennessee National Guard who mobilized for these operations and for those Tennessee Guardmembers who did not return.

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