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      "relay history",
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      "flag misfiled aliases"
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      "Mission-based types",
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        "note": ""
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      "airlift and transport wings",
      "helicopter wings",
      "training wings",
      "expeditionary wings"
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        "relation": "contains",
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      },
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      },
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      "NATO terminology standards"
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      "Assuming uniform sizes across countries",
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        "Explain how the meaning of wing differs between air forces, such as the US and British usage."
      ],
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        "Disclose a wing's current deployments, strength or readiness beyond what is officially published.",
        "Assist in planning attacks on or by an air force unit.",
        "Identify or track individual personnel of a wing without a lawful basis."
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      ]
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        "Military units exist to use force, and information about them can endanger lives.",
        "Service members and their families have privacy and safety interests."
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        "Service members",
        "Their families",
        "Civilians near bases and operations"
      ]
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      "master_systems": []
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                    "text": "What are fighter, transport and helicopter wings, RCAF wings and Jagdgeschwader, and what were alae sociorum?",
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                    "text": "Which entry fits the specific unit type?",
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                  }
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              }
            ]
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                "name": "US Air Force",
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                    "text": "How are USAF wings organised into groups and squadrons, in general terms?",
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                    "text": "Which references are standard?",
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                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
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            "id": "commonwealth",
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                "id": "commonwealth-finding",
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                    "text": "How do RAF and RCAF use the wing designation?",
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                    "text": "Which sources are cited?",
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                  }
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                    "text": "How were wings and Geschwader organised during the Second World War, as historians describe?",
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                    "text": "Which entry fits Luftwaffe?",
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                    "text": "What were the alae sociorum of the Roman Republic?",
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                    "text": "Which entry fits Socii?",
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              }
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            "id": "heraldry",
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                "id": "heraldry-finding",
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                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How do wings use emblems and heraldry?",
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                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits military heraldry?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
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          }
        ]
      }
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    "The registry alias alae sociorum should be moved to Roman military entries",
    "Should national wing definitions be separate entries?",
    "How should official unit data be kept current?"
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