Today, I salute Airman Major Jonathan Buckingham. He began his Air Force career as a KC-135 Stratotanker pilot and held that role from 2012 to 2017 before transitioning to acquisitions. Today, he works as a program manager for the Kessel Run division, part of the Department of the Air Force Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management. KR delivers resilient command and control and targeting software capabilities that provide warfighters with decision advantage. That’s not all, Maj. Jonathan Buckingham has set 17 Guinness World Records and leads a nonprofit organization, “World Record Breakers Club,” whose members have collectively broken 27 records. Moreover, the Airman has three more records pending and continues to seek opportunities to break more. Thank you, Major Jonathan Buckingham, for inspiring with your record-breaking moments and goals, and THANK YOU for your service.
Major Buckingham’s records:
- Fastest time to travel to all seven continents.
- Fastest circumnavigation by scheduled flights, visiting six continents.
- Fastest towed asphalt skiing.
- Most fire knife spins on a balance board in one minute.
- Fastest time to travel to all New York City ferry stations.
- Most catches of a medicine ball wearing boxing gloves in one minute.
- Most balloons burst with boxing gloves in one minute.
- Most balloons burst with feet in one minute.
- Fastest time to burst 200 balloons with a nail.
- Most alternating tennis ball catches in the plank position in one minute.
- Fastest time to put on 10 socks.
- Fastest time to set up and topple 10 books.
- Fastest time to set up and topple Guinness World Record books.
- Fastest time to break open five pinatas.
- Most museums visited in 24 hours.
- Most basketball bounces on a balance board in one minute
- Most basketball bounces on a balance board in one minute with two balls
