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Jay Tenison's grim diagnosis came in early 2022. The abdominal pains he had experienced over the previous year were signs of terminal stomach cancer. When the shock subsided, the 40-year-old Army vet...

The US army veteran, Jay Tenison, who served from 2004 to 2008 and was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, on his terminal cancer diagnosis

U.S. Army veteran Jay Tenison of Arizona checked off a bucket list item after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He got inside a tank — and fired it one last time at Fort Moore in Georgia.

An Arizona veteran recently traveled across the country for the trip of a lifetime: to operate a tank one last time.

When an Army veteran who served in Iraq found out he had terminal, stage four stomach cancer, he had a wish. Jay Tenison wanted to fire a tank something he

The “thunder of doom” echoed throughout the valley and hills as a cloud of white smoke plumed downrange Tuesday afternoon at the tank range at Fort Moore.

In early 2022, Jay Tenison was diagnosed with Stage IV stomach cancer after reporting pain to his doctors. After months of chemotherapy, he got the worst news of his life -- there was nothing medical care could do for him.

One of Jay Tenison’s last wishes was to fire a tank one last time. Fort Moore personnel made it happen.

When Army tanker veteran Jay Tenison was diagnosed last year with terminal, Stage IV stomach cancer, he sat down to consider what he wanted to do with the remaining months of his life. “I realized I really wanted to do tank gunnery,” he said. “I just really wanted to shoot a tank again.”