A Jacksonville man who spent years preparing for a military aviation career says one crash on the ground derailed the future he’d been working toward.

Will Hynes, 22, says he grew up wanting one thing: to fly.

“I wanted to join the military and go in the WOFT program, which is strictly flying.”

Hynes told the Ask Anthony team he had his path set toward the cockpit of a military aircraft, until a November morning last year changed everything. He says he had stopped in the Tinseltown parking lot off Southside Boulevard during a quick breakfast run when a Waste Management truck hit his Jeep.

“It was a very short period of time before I saw the truck. All I could do was slam on the brakes and honk.”

Photos from the scene don’t show major damage, but Hynes says the physical impact was i

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