The latter half of 1963 became a period of unprogrammed exercise participation for MATS as the entire defense establishment responded to a Secretary of Defense directive to conduct a series of strategic mobility exercises.

Before January 1965, the reservists generally had not gone beyond Japan on transport missions for MATS, but in that month they were called upon to go farther.

Regulatory Impact Analysis for MATS (PDF) (510pp, 8.3MB)

Please see the following technical documents for more information about the benefits for MATS.

Developed for bomber training dring the war, Mountain Home AFB had recently been an Air Resupply And Communications Service special operations base for MATS, and had phased down its operations.

Shemya also continued to support the Great Circle Route for MATS and later Military Airlift Command transports between Japan and Elmendorf AFB.

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James F. Blake (1912-2002) - worked as a bus driver for MATS until 1974 and issued an arrest warrant for Rosa Parks in 1955.

Re-equipped with C-121 Constellations in 1964, performed passenger transport missions for MATS both domestically and to the Caribbean and Europe for EASTAF.

The airfield remained open for use by transient aircraft and for MATS to airlift supplies and equipment to the site.