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Sean Duffy: “It was taking a year and a half to get a slot in the…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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Sean Duffy's Briefing on Newark Airspace and Air Traffic Control System Overhaul

Published | Video Starts at 08:43

And so what I've done is I'm taking the top corner, qualified. The best qualified applicants who take the entrance exam, I'm putting them in the academy first. It was taking a year and a half to get a slot in the academy. until you got your seat in the Academy. If you're 25 years old, you're gonna find a new job. So we were losing potential candidates to go to the academy. (08:43–08:49)

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Asserts that it took 1.5 years to get a slot in the air traffic controller academy.

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