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On the recordNovember 13, 2002
If my good friend will yield, I can suggest to her respectfully, under the bill they have to have the training; and I would rather have my pilot be armed and defend that cockpit as against an F-16 to be shot down. That is the whole intent. So in the bill they are trained, yes. All this says is that it is a voluntary process they go through, but the training is necessary.
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Don Young
Republican · Alaska

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Discussing the training requirements for pilots under a proposed bill.

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