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Joe Courtney: “One of the threshold requirements, particularly in pillar…”

Featuring: Joe Courtney, Democratic | U.S. House Connecticut, 2nd Congressional District

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Congressman Joe Courtney Discusses the Impact and Progress of the Aukus Security Agreement

Published | Video Starts at 09:01

And that's actually sort of the fun stuff to talk about one year later. And this poster actually shows a perfect example about how the congressional authorities are going into play. One of the threshold requirements, particularly in pillar one for the Australian Navy is to train up and skill up in terms of the operation of nuclear powered submarines. Again, they have a very capable submarine force today which again does great work in collaboration with us and other allies. But again, the technology that they operate is diesel electric. (09:01–09:13)

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Asserts that a requirement for the Australian Navy is training for nuclear-powered submarines.

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