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776th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron

Military unit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The 776th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron is a provisional United States Air Force squadron activated after 11 September 2001, being engaged in the global war on terrorism. Its current status is not publicly known.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “776th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron” as military unit. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around 776th, Expeditionary and Airlift.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with 776th, Expeditionary and Airlift providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “776th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.