{"id":169076,"date":"2025-05-01T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=169076"},"modified":"2025-04-30T18:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:02:32","slug":"army-o-3-breaks-mile-record-by-20-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=169076","title":{"rendered":"Army O-3 breaks mile record by 20 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. Army Capt. Travis Chewning-Kulick set a new mile run record at Ft. Hood<\/del> Cavazos last Friday. In so doing, he shaved 20 seconds off the existing mark.<\/p>\n

The official ruling from the Guinness World Records takes roughly six months to be confirmed, but multiple witnesses on hand reported his time, which was a third of a minute faster than the standing record.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst lap, I probably went out a little too fast because I got excited with the crowd,\u201d Chewning-Kulick told the Army after the record setting mile. \u201cI found something that last 400 to bring it home.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Twenty seconds… just wow. Okay, I know some of you are or were runners, and know that world records aren’t broken by that kind of margin, right? A few seconds is huge – in some events even a single full second is a pretty big hill to climb. So, twenty seconds? As the late great Mr. Harvey said, now for the rest of the story:<\/p>\n

He did it wearing a bomb-disposal protective suit.<\/p>\n

The EOD gear is no joke. A full bomb suit weighs approximately 50 pounds. That might not be as much as the amount of gear soldiers wear on patrol, but the nature of the bomb suit leaves a cumbersome fit. Layers of kevlar and other protective material leave limbs bulky. A large and heavy helmet can pull on the head at a run. Task & Purpose<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Business Insider<\/a> cites the suit as 62 pounds. Task & Purpose, as shown, says 50 pounds. Either way, more than I ever wanted to strap on for fun. That’s more than even those sumo-wrestler suits people like to dress in and mock-fight at parties. More from Task & Purpose:<\/p>\n

Why? According to the Army, the captain did it to \u201cdemonstrate the physical and mental fortitude required of EOD technicians.\u201d It was an idea planted by his old platoon sergeant. During one physical training session, the sergeant challenged him to try to break the record one day, Chewning-Kulick told the Killeen Daily Herald.<\/p>\n

Although the run was all Chewning-Kulick, the overall event was a team effort. Other soldiers from 752nd Ordnance Company were on hand to help strap him into the heavy bomb protection suit, take data before the run, and track his speed, time and weight around the track. His senior enlisted advisor, 1st Sgt. Edwin Vazquez, ran the mile with him to help him keep pace. Prior to the officer\u2019s record setting run, other EOD team leaders stationed at Fort Cavazos also put on bomb protection suits and ran a relay around the same track.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Senior Enlisted Advisor?<\/p>\n

Regardless – sounds like a helluva accomplishment, and I suspect from the accompanying data, the 752nd probably has no morale issues.<\/p>\n

British Army officer Mark Gibbs ran a 7 minute, 24 second mile in a bomb suit in December 2017, for a charity event. That record has stood for more than seven years, according to Guinness World Records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By the way, I thought 20 seconds was a lot – here’s another tidbit from Business Insider’s report.<\/p>\n

In 2021, Army\u00a0Capt. Kaitlyn Hernandez shattered the women’s record, wearing what was said to be a 96-pound bomb suit. She ran a mile in 10 minutes and 23 seconds. The previous women’s record was 11 minutes and six seconds in 2013.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Takes me back to the ’80s in Germany when one of our NBC NCOs decided to prove MOPP-4 was not a deterrent to activity and rode his bicycle 25 miles onto post at rush hour. He said he got a LOT of honks and waves from the German commuters. But I have to say – MOPP-4 doesn’t weigh over 50 pounds, either. Props to ALL these fine EOD officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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