Who can down more hot dogs, 4 soldiers or 1 competitive eater?

A handful of troopers will get an opportunity to place their velocity consuming to the take a look at as they transfer to the massive leagues of aggressive consuming subsequent Thursday.

Aggressive eater Joey “Jaws” Chestnut will attend a scorching canine consuming contest at Fort Bliss’ “Pop Goes the Fort” occasion to rejoice Independence Day. 4 troopers will tackle Chestnut, a 16-time winner of the Nathan’s Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest, in a 5-minute competitors.

From Primary Coaching to day-to-day life within the operational drive, there are solely so many minutes in a given day when troopers can cram meals into their mouths earlier than racing off to the subsequent job.

That ought to give them a shot in opposition to Chestnut.

“I’ll root for them, however clearly, I feel that Joey would possibly take championships,” Fort Bliss Morale, Welfare and Recreation spokesperson Marlo Bestar instructed Navy Occasions. “Everyone’s tremendous stoked that he’s coming to affix our occasion.”

Officers from Main League Consuming introduced on June 11 that Chestnut, who ate 62 scorching canines eventually yr’s contest, could be barred from competing within the annual competitors after Chestnut signed with one other scorching canine model, in accordance with the Related Press.

On June 25, the Fort Bliss Morale, Welfare and Recreation account on X, previously Twitter, tagged Chestnut in a tweet providing him an opportunity to compete in opposition to troopers on the base’s July 4th occasion. Chestnut at the moment holds the recent canine consuming world document, consuming 76 scorching canines in 10 minutes on the 2021 Nathan’s competitors

“ABSOLUTELY,” Chestnut responded. “I’m honored to rejoice America’s birthday with U.S. ARMY troopers and their households. Deliver me your finest 4 eaters and I’ll take them down, mixed!”

Fort Bliss, situated on the Texas-New Mexico state line outdoors of El Paso, is residence to the first Armored Division.