Ready Every Day: Coast Guard and USPHS Joint Workout

I'm Admiral Kevin Lundee, the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard. And I'm Admiral Brian Christine. I'm the Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, and I'm also the leader of the Commission Corps, the uniform branch of the United States Public Health Service. So today, Admiral Christine and I are here in the Semper Paratus Fitness Center at U.S. Coast Guard headquarters here at St. Elizabeth's, and we're getting ready to do a really intense physical workout. It's great to have Admiral Christine and his team here today. Public Health Service are more than just teammates. We're brothers and sisters working together every day, training together, and doing the missions together to not only keep the nation safe and secure, but healthy. And that health starts with our own health and our team's health. We know that as uniformed services, we have to be ready to deploy. We have to be ready to serve the American people, to keep our great nation free and safe. And so we have to be physically ready. We have to be spiritually ready. We have to be ready in our soul as well as in our body. And that's what this is all about. Hi, I'm Lieutenant Commander Steven Rutasky. I'm the Physical Readiness Program Manager. Physical readiness is cornerstone to mission readiness. The new physical readiness program is an investment in our service, it's an investment in the mission, and it's ultimately an investment in our people. Physical readiness, it does everything from helping me manage my stress at work or just life in general, or be better efficient at my job, be ready for the call if anything does pop up. And at the same time, for my personal life, I have three young boys, so being able to keep up with them and wrangle them on a daily basis, it definitely, it's a big benefit to being physically fit. So it's absolutely critical in every aspect of life.