December 2023 — M2CC Newsletter
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24 | <strong>M2CC</strong> - News www.m2cc.us DECEMBER <strong>2023</strong> EDITION<br />
through before gunnery. He says he<br />
was quickly able to relearn how the<br />
tank operates. His only concern was<br />
climbing in and out of the tank. He<br />
also got to speak with basic trainees in<br />
tanker school, who wore COVID-19<br />
pandemic-era masks to protect him.<br />
The Abrams is relatively unchanged<br />
since Tenison’s time in service,<br />
which included a deployment to<br />
Ramadi, Iraq, with 2nd Battalion,<br />
37th Armor Regiment, during a<br />
kinetic time in the region. He spent<br />
some of the mission behind a desk<br />
doing administrative work, but also<br />
Merry<br />
Christmas<br />
was a part of convoys for resupply<br />
missions and taking the dead off the<br />
battlefield.<br />
“We lost seven or eight guys; I got<br />
to carry the bodies back,” Tenison<br />
recalled. “We would just go and<br />
retrieve them. They would already<br />
be in a body bag.”<br />
He was struggling in college and<br />
with other personal matters when he<br />
joined the Army at 20 years old. Like<br />
many enlistees, he needed a reset<br />
button and was seduced by the $7,000<br />
From our family to yours,<br />
Happy Holidays and a<br />
Happy New Year!<br />
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