squadron
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He said the eight sailors included "the Lincoln crew and sailors from the carrier airwing, strike group and destroyer squadron staff, escorting destroyers and all embarked aviation squadrons".
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
During the best fight scene, Peter takes on a squadron of gravity-defying ninjas in a brawl that takes place as much in the air as on the ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
An array of military jets, including the Blue Angels, the US Navy's flight demonstration squadron, flew over New York Harbor, some leaving red, white and blue contrails.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
French-American land forces converged on an entrenched British army in southeastern Virginia, as a French fleet swatted away a royal navy relief squadron and sealed off the Chesapeake Bay escape route.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Apache Bill asked the pilots of the squadron.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Pakistan already has 8,000 troops in Saudi Arabia, along with 16 Chinese-made JF-17 Thunder fighter jets, combat drone squadrons and a surface-to-air missile battery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The intensity of the operations took a toll on the Lincoln, whose squadrons flew more than 10,000 sorties during the deployment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
But the deployment of 19 warships, air-defense units, fighter squadrons and paratroopers across the region is straining servicemembers and their families and creating a maintenance backlog that could take years to unwind, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Ajax programme had "left its troubles behind" and was ready to be deployed with squadrons on operations.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
I continued to scan the sky and quickly spotted two more Sixer gunship squadrons off near the eastern horizon.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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