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Rodney Hahn is a Navy veteran and fitness trainer who smashed two Guinness World Records for pullups.

In 2015, Hahn did 6,737 pullups in 24 hours. In 2016, a Virginia teen took the title by doing 7,300 pullups. Hahn tried to win the title back, but fell short when he completed 6,844 pull-ups. But it wasn’t all for nothing as Hahn was able to raise $8,000 for the Navy Seal Fund.

Hahn, who is 56 years old, wants his title back. His goal is to do 8,000 pullups in a single day.

Hahn, who has been a fitness trainer for 20 years, understands what it takes. He works out six days a week to build endurance. He believes the most challenging part of the challenge to regain his title is sleep deprivation.

The Virginia Beach native understands that to achieve his goals, he needs to train in increments.

Hahn is not content to just break the pullups record again. He also wants to break two other world records, including doing more than 30 chin-ups in a minute with a 20 pound weight onboard, and doing more than 57 pushups in a minute with a 60 pound weight onboard. He wants to achieve this before his next birthday when he will be turning 57.

Hahn believes that the 8,000 push-ups in a single 24 hours is the easier of the goals to achieve.

We at MilitaryConnection.com commend Rodney Hahn and wish him success in achieving all of his goals.

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By Debbie Gregory.

To get into the Guinness World Record books, people often do something crazy and outlandish. There are records for events like the tallest building climbed without a safety harness, or most pubs visited. There’s even a record for most consecutive daily video blogs on YouTube. But for Pete Weber Jr., his world record is much more personal, because he’s been doing it for most of his life.

At the age of 95, Weber has earned a Guinness World Record for being the oldest active pilot. Previously, the record was held by Cole Kugel, who lived in Longmont, Colorado. Kugle flew for the last time in 2007 at the age of 105. Sadly, he died the same year.

Weber, a retired U.S. Air Force Veteran, was 95 years, 4 months and 23 days old at the time of his last qualifying flight. He and his son Peter Weber III started looking into the record after they wondered whether the elder Weber could be the oldest pilot in California.

Following an email exchange with Guinness over a number of weeks, the record keepers decided to open a new category: Oldest qualified pilot still licensed and flying solo. Weber’s flight wasn’t a long one, only 20 minutes, three loops around an area airfield, but it met the Guinness requirements nonetheless.

At the age of 95, most people are wondering if they should still be operating a car, let alone flying an airplane.

To continue as a private pilot over the age of 40, medical exams are required every 24 months. The number of pilots over 90 with valid medical clearances totaled 106 as of June 2013, according Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration’s Pacific Division.

With 72 years of experience, beginning with a military career in the Army’s combat engineers unit, Weber flew alone in a rented Diamond DA20. It’s one of 37 plane models he’s flown.

His flying career started when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Weber passed the test to be an aviation cadet and went into the Army Air Corps, the forerunner of the U.S. Air Force.

During World War II, Weber flew a P-38 fighter in the South Pacific, and was an instrument flight instructor during the Korean War. He even flew an AC-130 gunship in Vietnam.

Weber began as a private, and retired in 1970 from the Air Force as a lieutenant colonel. His flight skills have been put to use as a great way to keep his spare time fun.

“I like to fly,” he said. “I fly at least twice a month. I like to observe and take anybody up for a ride who wants to go.”

Weber credits his good health, mental acuity and long life to his diet and his wife Ruth’s cooking.

“My wife, Ruth, is a good cook,” he said. “We’ve been married 72 years. I was a cadet in primary flight training when we got married.”

As to his record, Weber says he isn’t competitive about it.

“If somebody passes me up, I’ll call them up and congratulate them.”

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