Portrait photo of the U.S. Navy Naval Air Transport Squadron 3 (VR-3) in July 1966 on one of the squadron's Lockheed C-130E <i>Hercules</i> aircraft. Visible are 131 crewmen, 20 more were on missions. VR-3 was based at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey (USA), and became the last U.S. Navy transport squadron flying for the Military Air Transport Service/Military Airlift Command until the squadron was disestablished on 19 July 1967. The demands of the Vietnam War and the resultant pilot shortage caused the Navy to withdraw its commitment.
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/department_arch.html">U.S. Navy All Hands magazine</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/archpdf/ah196610.pdf">October 1966</a>, p. 44.