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RC Cola–Air Force Raiders

women's volleyball team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ17086642 ↗
Source-derived summary

The RC Cola–Air Force Raiders were a women's volleyball team owned by ARC Refreshments Corporation. The team competed in the Philippine Super Liga from 2013 to 2016, debuting as the RC Cola Raiders before it partnered with the women's volleyball team of the Philippine Air Force to become the Air Force Raiders.

While the team known as the Raiders competed until 2015, in 2016, the Philippine Army Lady Troopers partnered with ARC to form the RC Cola–Army Troopers.

Both teams were named after RC Cola, which ARC is the licensee of in the Philippines.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “RC Cola–Air Force Raiders” as women's volleyball team. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2016, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2013. The account is most persuasive where Cola, Force and Raiders can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as women's volleyball team. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17086642. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013, 2016 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “RC Cola–Air Force Raiders” 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.