An American story!-----Army tanker vet facing cancer gets a final wish: send one last round - Task & Purpose

Army tanker vet facing cancer gets a final wish: send one last round - Task & Purpose - BY PATTY NIEBERG

"Jay Tenison spent nine years in the Army including an Iraq deployment as a tanker. 

On Tuesday, he got a last chance to hear "the thunder of doom."

• When Jay Tenison thought about the things he wanted in the final days of his life, one was to fire the cannon on a tank, one more time.

On Tuesday, over a decade after his last time in a turret, he got to fire a round from a tank one last time...

Tenison’s journey to the Fort Moore firing range began in 2022. 

After receiving a diagnosis – which took longer than expected – Tenison underwent chemotherapy in March 2022 until September when his oncologist told him that his cancer had progressed to the point that they had run out of treatment options.

• “It didn’t shatter my world, but it kinda made me take a step back,” Tenison told Task & Purpose.
• He found himself thinking about how to spend the time he had left...