Ep: 074 - Paul Davis, Ph.D

 

In this episode I sit down with Paul O. Davis, III, PhD,

Dr. Davis, is the president of the First Responder Institute. He is a graduate of the School of Public Health, University of Maryland and a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.

We discuss his time under contract to the Marine Corps, where he was embedded as a rifleman and conducted a five-year job task analysis of the critical and arduous tasks required for the MOS 0311 in high altitude, cold weather, desert, jungle and amphibious operations. 

Dr. Davis developed physical performance standards for all uniformed personnel.  

Dr. Davis was also a member of the Astronaut Rescue Team Initiative- a joint-USAF- NASA project to designed to increase survivability of a Space Shuttle launch mishap, created after the Challenger incident.

For the Navy, he carried out a world-wide certification program for Command Fitness Coordinators. For the Army, he wrote the first POI (program of instruction) for the Physical Fitness Academy at the Soldier Support Center.

He is the executive producer of several ESPN, Versus, CBS Sports and Discovery Channel productions including the Marine Corps Super Squad Challenge, Army Ranger Challenge, World SWAT Challenge and the Firefighter Combat Challenge®. 

We also talk about some events that are coming up soon.  One of the Firefighter Combat Challenge will be taking place soon, http://www.firefighterchallenge.com and a NEW twist for the military called - Battle Challenge. http://www.firstresponder.org/battle_yuma.html.