Don't get behind the power curve.

This is something that I heard first in the SEAL teams

and I heard it a lot when I was in the SEAL teams.

And I didn't know where it came from in the beginning,

but it's a term that pilots use.

Pilots flying airplanes, if you get into a situation

where you don't have enough power

to give the aircraft the speed that it needs to stay in the air,

then you're going down.

You're going to go down.

And if you have enough altitude,

if you're high enough above the ground to point your nose down

and gain enough speed using gravity

and give you lift, then you can recover.

But if you don't have enough altitude,

you are going to crash and burn.

Now, in the SEAL teams,

when we talked about being behind the power curve,

we didn't mean it in this technical aircraft kind of way,

but it had a similar meaning.

You see, you have all kinds of things to do

when you're preparing for a mission.

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