This is Jockel Podcast number two twenty one with Echo Charles and me Jockel Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening.

June 15, 2010.

Members of the selection committee, it is with absolute conviction that I give my strongest possible

personal recommendation to Jonathan Y Kim's selection for medical school. There is no one more

qualified to make this recommendation than me as Jonathan was under my direct supervision as a

US Navy SEAL combat medic while I commanded SEAL team three tasking abuser during the battle of

Ramadi Operation Iraqi Freedom from April until October 2006. During this time the city of Ramadi

was the epicenter of the insurgency and a place filled with fear, violence, casualties, and death.

In that brutal and unforgiving environment, Jonathan's undaunted courage,

tenacious devotion to duty, and superb skills as a combat medic were tested and proven over and

over again. On one particular occasion, he and a small element of other SEAL combat advisors

were leading a patrol of Iraqi soldiers through an enemy controlled sector of Ramadi.

The patrol was ferociously ambushed, leaving an Iraqi soldier severely wounded and lying helpless

in the street. Jonathan and another SEAL who had taken refuge from the enemy gunfire behind a

concrete wall left their safe position and stormed forward into the hail of enemy bullets.

They then dragged the wounded soldier under intense enemy fire back to a secure position where

Jonathan immediately began performing combat trauma care on the Iraqi soldier.

Another Iraqi soldier was then wounded by enemy fire and Jonathan provided medical care to him

as well, eventually organizing the casualty evacuation for the wounded men.

For his actions that day, Jonathan was awarded the Silver Star Medal in recognition of his bold

courage under enemy fire. That level of heroism and bravery was not an isolated incident.

On another occasion, Jonathan exposed himself to enemy sniper fire in order to attend to one of

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