with Business Insider about what he said was perhaps his greatest mistake.
"If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way," he told Business Insider. "But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass — and you get up each time — you will reach your destination."
Not too long after that, he said, his friend and sniper Ryan Job was shot in the face in the line of duty. Kim said he managed to stabilize Job, but disagreed with the PA about what to do next; Kim wanted to get him to an operating room right away, while the PA wanted to insert a breathing tube up his nose — what he said is a very painful procedure — during a stopover en route to a hospital.