LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Each year the United States Military gives away their Operation Homefront award to seven teenagers nationwide, and this year one of them is from Michigan.

Haydn Jones, a junior at Sault Area High School in Sault Ste. Marie won the 2023 Operation Homefront’s U.S. Coast Guard Military Child of the Year Award.

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Operation Homefront’s awards reflect the positive impact that children of military families have made on the communities, schools, and families they belong to.

Jones will be pursuing a career in the military as a pilot or engineer.

The other six winners came from Hawaii, Texas, Massachusetts, Alabama, Maryland, and Colorado.