Physically fit and back to his ebullient self.

"This is about recruiting a large number of people who are going to be physically fit, who are going to obey a lot of rules and regulations and they’re going to be disciplined," he said.

It was brutal; some of the officers had to give up their careers because they were no longer physically fit, some of them were brutalized, some of them had brain trauma, some died by suicide.

That pilots have to be perfect and physically fit and mentally — completely like a calm sea.

I sat in my car, in an El Segundo shopping mall parking lot, looking up at a new storefront touted as a one-stop shop for feeling physically fit, emotionally grounded and socially connected.