Jonny Kim gives Veterans Day Speech at NASA Wallops Facility

NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim, a decorated former Navy SEAL, Emergency Physician and Tillman Scholar, gives a Veterans Day Speech as the Keynote Speaker at NASA Wallops Veterans Day Commemoration Ceremony on November 6, 2019.
He speaks of his former teammates in his SEAL task unit who were killed in action during the Battle of Ramadi or otherwise passed away.
Jonny Kim is a recipient of the Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat V. He was named the Naval Special Warfare Medic of the Year in 2006 for his actions during the Battle of Ramadi.
He earned a 3.98 GPA in a BA in Mathematics from the University of San Diego, and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2016, serving one year as an Emergency Medicine Resident at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Early in his medical school education, he heard of the calling to be an astronaut from Astronaut Scott Parazynski, and eagerly waited for an application period to open up.
In 2016, he applied to the NASA Astronaut Program and in 2017, was announced as one of 12 American astronauts selected from a pool of 18,300 applicants, making up NASA Astronaut Group 22. He graduated from the training program in January 2020, and currently works to support ongoing space missions while awaiting a flight assignment.
He speaks of his former teammates in his SEAL task unit who were killed in action during the Battle of Ramadi or otherwise passed away.

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