This is the Jocko Underground Podcast, number 163, sitting here with Echo Charles, getting ready to provide some courses of action for various scenarios presented and also answer some questions.

So let's get into it.

It's true.

Yeah, the principles of a lot of these questions, like if you take the principle of it it you can apply it to like your own

scenario of course that's kind of the deal of course I'm saying that's what I'm

doing good good functional use because let's face a lot of these questions they

don't directly apply one-to-one to me but kind of the fundamental principle a lot

of time I'm like you get to hear it from a

different angle, little reinforcement. A hundred percent, check. All right, first question. I'm currently

a firefighter turning 30 this year. I'm lucky enough to be in a very physically demanding

specialty surrounded by guys who are in great shape. I'm the oldest one in my rank, but have no

issue keeping up and leading our PT sessions.

My question is this.

Can you compare yourself today to your 20 to 25 year old prime?

If you had to do a PST, how would your times and numbers compare then and now?

Obviously, work output variables are impacted by age, but how have you been able to keep

performance high through aging? Thanks for all the lessons you've imparted. You guys impact

so many lives.

Well, first thanks for your service as a firefighter. That's awesome. It sounds like you're

getting after it still after a long time. Turning 30 year oh maybe not that long with time uh so pstt uh which is a physical screening

test and we used to take psts and i went through a couple different iterations of psts when i first

joined the day back in the day

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