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Military Air Transportation Service (MATS) was a command of the United States Air Force . It was formed on June 1 , 1948 by consolidating the Air Transport Command and the Naval Air Transport Service of the United States Navy under the control of the newly created United States Air Force (USAF). It is probably best known for the Berlin Airlift . On January 1 , 1966 , MATS became the Military Airlift Command .