The Marine Corps League Westchester County Detachment is proud to announce Jesus Asanza Naula as the 2025 recipient of the Lance Corporal Craig Wyche Marine Memorial Scholarship. On June 5, 2025, during the senior awards event, Jesus was presented with the scholarship award and certificate. He will be attending SUNY Polytechnic Institute, where he will major in Electrical Engineering Technology.
The Marine Memorial Scholarships were established to honor the memory of Westchester County Marines who lost their lives in the tragic bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 23, 1983. Each scholarship provides a cash award to a student pursuing further education in engineering or trades fields.
Lance Corporal Craig Wyche, an Ossining High School alumnus (class of 1982), enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and was deployed to Beirut, Lebanon, on a peacekeeping mission. On that fateful day in 1983, a suicide bomber detonated a truck bomb at the barracks of the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines (Battalion Landing Team – BLT 1/8) of the 2nd Marine Division, killing 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and 3 soldiers. This attack marked the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II and for the United States Armed Forces since the first day of the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War. Lance Corporal Craig Wyche was among the 220 Marines, including three from Westchester County, who perished in the bombing.
To view the list of past recipients of the Marine Memorial Scholarship, please visit our https://www.mclwestchester.org/marine-memorial-scholarship-recipients/
