"MATS" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1961 January, T.J. Slaybaugh, “Searched, Sighted, Saved”, in Airman, page 8:",
          "text": "At the controls was Capt. Bill Laughlin, a veteran MATS aircraft commander and his chief pilot in the 41st Air Transport Squadron.",
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          "ref": "1961 November, Jan A. Wells, “A Dangerous Attitude”, in The MATS Flyer, volume 8, number 11, page 26:",
          "text": "I guess I really learned that a long time ago, when MATS first began teaching me, but I had overlooked it lately.",
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          "ref": "1964, Stanley M. Ulanoff, MATS: The Story of the Military Air Transport Service, page 56:",
          "text": "For the first ten years of its existence MATS operate with three major air transport divisions that physically circled the globe.",
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          "ref": "1961 January, T.J. Slaybaugh, “Searched, Sighted, Saved”, in Airman, page 8:",
          "text": "At the controls was Capt. Bill Laughlin, a veteran MATS aircraft commander and his chief pilot in the 41st Air Transport Squadron.",
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          "ref": "1961 November, Jan A. Wells, “A Dangerous Attitude”, in The MATS Flyer, volume 8, number 11, page 26:",
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          "ref": "1964, Stanley M. Ulanoff, MATS: The Story of the Military Air Transport Service, page 56:",
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