Former gang member aims high after he finds aviation program

August 6, 2009


Less than two years after suffering a broken rib in a gang fight, Wesley Jones is learning how to take flight.

The Fort Gordon Youth Challenge Academy graduate was awarded one of two $100,000 scholarships by the On Wings of Eagles Foundation to participate in a pilot-training program at TransPac Aviation Academy in Phoenix.

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