...”...Was under MATS, fighter squadrons, had SAC components, the transferred to USAFE command....”
....we must be of the same generation....how many folks today even know there was a MATS years ago...??!! (Military Air Transport Service, which morphed into Military Airlift Command, which itself became today’s Air Mobility Command...)...
I guess not many. Born 1950. Served 1968-1976. I remember Wheelus Closing. I remember Lajes Field, Peterson Field, Ent AFB (now an Olympic training center), Lindsey Air Station and Sunnyvale AFS (now Onizuka AFB) and whole bunch of lesser status facilities we used to have. Now they’re all AFB or ARB or Joint Base, etc. When they went mainly to satellites, they got rid of the service I was in - Air Force Communications Service AFCS.