{"id":140428,"date":"2023-04-24T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=140428"},"modified":"2023-04-23T19:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T23:22:22","slug":"overachiever-finds-yet-one-more-way-to-overachieve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=140428","title":{"rendered":"Overachiever finds yet one more way to overachieve"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lieutenant Commander Jonny Kim, MD, USNR, former Navy SEAL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I talked about Silver Star recipient Jonny Kim<\/a> a while back in a Valor Friday piece. Since then the man who enlisted into the Navy, became a SEAL, was decorated for valor in action, was commissioned an officer, became a medical doctor (from Harvard no less), and then became an astronaut has squeezed another<\/em> extremely hard achievement-of-a-lifetime into his resume.<\/p>\n

I ended my VF piece on Kim by saying, “He\u2019s only 37, so he\u2019s got a couple more decades to work in some other amazing career choice.” Well, he’s now 39 and has just received his wings of gold as a US Naval Aviator. Yup, he’s taken up flying helicopters. This guy is living like three of my childhood dreams. I feel so inadequate.<\/p>\n

Task and Purpose has the story<\/a>;<\/p>\n

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Navy SEAL doctor astronaut Jonny Kim somehow finds time to become naval aviator<\/h3>\n

U.S. Navy SEAL. Harvard Medical School-trained physician. Astronaut. These are all things on Lt. Cmdr. Jonny Kim\u2019s already extensive list of accomplishments. Now Kim can add naval aviator to that list.<\/p>\n

Kim completed his advanced helicopter training on March 24, pinning on his wings at Naval Air Station Whiting in Corpus Christi, Texas, according to a Navy press release published this week<\/p>\n

\u201cNASA really values helicopter pilots for their perspectives and crew resource management mentality,\u201d Kim said in the release, adding that astronauts in the Apollo space program also completed helicopter aviation training due to the similarities with lunar landing procedures.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpace flight is closely related to aviation, and proper crew resource management allocates human resources to accomplish the mission safely and effectively. By virtue of the helicopter cockpit environment, helicopter pilots bring an abundance of CRM to the spaceflight table,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

To complete the aviation training, Kim completed both solo and night flights.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NVG [night vision goggle] training in the advanced syllabus for helicopters was amazing, especially because I have a lot of ground experience as a SEAL using night vision \u2026 but I didn\u2019t have the experience of integrating a cockpit-NVG scan with degraded visual environments \u2026 That was really challenging and formative in my growth as an aviator,\u201d said Kim.<\/p>\n

Kim\u2019s graduation from flight school \u2013 he was, naturally, on the so-called \u201cCommodore\u2019s List\u201d of distinguished graduates \u2013 likely makes him one of few people in the ranks of the U.S. military who are both qualified naval flight surgeons and pilots.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More at the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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