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221: The Unimaginable Path of Jonny Kim. SEAL Combat Medic, Doctor, Astronaut

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Jocko DEFCOR Network

Management, History, Business

4.831.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 281 minutes

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Summary

0:00:00 - Opening. The Letter

0:07:22 - Jonny Kim. Combat Medic.

3:44:39 - NASA.

4:09:17 - Final thoughts and take-aways.

4:19:56 - How to stay on THE PATH.

4:38:31 - Closing Gratitude

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0:00.0

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

0:09.4

June 15, 2010.

0:14.5

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

0:22.8

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

0:31.5

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

0:38.7

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

0:44.9

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

0:54.4

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

1:04.8

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

1:11.2

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

1:19.6

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

1:28.1

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

1:32.3

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

1:42.0

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

1:48.7

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

1:55.7

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

2:03.3

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

2:10.5

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

2:16.4

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

2:21.0

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

2:29.2

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

2:39.7

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

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