Los Angeles — A Vandenberg Air Force Base airman’s speed helped a captain assigned at another base win a car on “The Jay Leno Show” on Thursday night.

Senior Airman Cameron Currie represented the Air Force during a competition pitting one member of each branch of the service — also Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard  — in various events.

 Currie, a member of the Vandenberg public affairs staff, successfully opened a can of cranberry sauce with a Swiss Army knife, tossed a ping-pong ball into a glass of gravy and ultimately ran a lap, besting an Army noncommissioned officer.

The win led to a drawing from a fish bowl filled with names of Air Force members in Leno’s audience Thursday night.

The winner? Air Force Capt. Tung Ngo, who won a 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid. He told Leno he was glad to get an upgrade from the 12-year-old car he drives. The Lincoln, Neb., native is headed next week to a new assignment at Cape Canaveral, Fla.