Is he one of the smartest SEALs ever? even made a Senator Cruz feel inadequate

[theking]

How an insecure teenager became a NASA-trained Navy SEAL, and convinced his Korean-American mom to allow him to join the military

US Navy Lt. Jonny Kim, former Navy SEAL and second-generation Korean-American who earned a Harvard medical degree, took the spotlight when he became a NASA astronaut. A Texas senator said Kim's accomplishment s made him feel "horribly, horribly inadequate."

"What the heck have we been doing with our lives," Republican Sen. Ted Cruz jokingly said of himself and his colleague, Sen. John Cornyn, during a NASA graduation ceremony on Friday.

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"Smart" he is. You on the other hand....

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[theking]

Thanks for the bump one-idiot, yep same idiot that wrongly accused the 'mods and admins' of having "favorites" then realized how wrong he was so he tried to kiss their asses after the fact.

Yep, also same idiot that I made cried mommy the hardest so the ran to the 'mods and admins' and cried his heart out about how "unfair" life is because he didn't get the "last word"..(IF YOU WANT THE ORIGINAL POST OF HIS CRIES, PM ME BECAUSE IF I POST IT HERE, HE'LL RUN TO THE 'mods and admins' AND WASTE THEIR TIMES AGAIN):

"Admins and Mods, I think it's unfair how a locked thread is still visible to all" (BOO HOO). "I think it should be removed" (BOO HOO). "It pains me to know and see that while the other party has the last word, all I can do is read what he/she has to say and can't respond" (BOO HOO HOO). "Please take into consideration what I have said because not being able to respond and have the last word really drives me nuts" (BOO HOO HOO HOO HOO HOO HOO HOO....)
 

Funny as FK seeing a supposedly grown man throwing that kind of baby behavior and tantrums so if anyone wants to see the original version, PM me. I can post it for all to see but the "one" and only "idiot" will just run to the "mods and admins" and cry them a river about how "unfair" life is again...

[theking]

Lt. Jonny Kim says the 'controlled aggression' he learned as a Navy SEAL and doctor is what helped him become a NASA astronaut



In an interview with Business Insider, Kim outlined the "hard skills" he learned from being a SEAL — from deploying twice to Iraq, to participating in dozens of combat missions and earning a Silver Star.

"The SEALs were very good in teaching me hard skills — that means resilience, pushing past your mental and physical boundaries; and having an enormously high threshold for pain," Kim said.

Kim contrasted the hard skills with "soft skill" traits that he picked up during his education from Harvard Medical School and his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.

"All of these things that are very useful, but some ... I had to learn outside of the SEALs," Kim said. "And that meant adapting to people in your civic group, communicating with people from all walks of life."


"You don't work with two-year-old toddlers who are in the emergency room, or 85-year-olds who are on their deathbed and want someone to talk to and hold their hand with," Kim said, referring to his military experience. "A lot of those soft skills — working with groups of people who I've never met before to accomplish a mission, adapting to personality types — those are skills I've learned outside the SEAL time."

Kim said it was a mixture of the soft and hard skills he learned that enabled him to become one of the 13 astronaut candidates to graduate from NASA's latest program.

"I would say that the combination of those two skills, soft and hard skills, really enabled me to be a good candidate as an astronaut," Kim said.

But possessing the two traits is only half the battle, Kim said — it's also important to know when to apply each skill set. Despite some of the stereotypes of being a Navy SEAL, Kim said nearly all of the SEALs he served with were masters of controlling their emotions, a skill that helped him transition from being a SEAL to a physician and astronaut.