315th Maintenance Group works side by side with the 437th Maintenance Group to provide total maintenance support for 40 assigned C-17 aircraft and support equipment valued at nearly $9 billion.
Unit location: Joint Base Charleston, S.C.
Unit size: 10 Officers, 315 Enlisted, 5 Civilians (Approximate)
Mission: Safe, reliable, sustained C-17 mission generation anywhere, anytime
Vision: AFRC's MXG of choice...Providing the most professional, mission ready, skilled, and experienced C-17 maintainers at home and abroad
2020 Highlights
- 25K Flight Hours/8.2K sorties/1.2K Home Station departures/35% of AMC C-17 Taskings
- Secured airlift of 1st ever Transportation Isolation System certification; generated 20 hi-vis AE msns—53 AE crew qualified; 88 COVID-19 patients evacuated to life saving care
- Oversaw 240 C-17 Boeing maintenance requests; pushed 358 special msns—drove 99% POTUS support departures
- Flawlessly executed HUREVAC operations; prepared/relocated 22 aircraft/75 personnel; $4.75B in assets secured/postured for seamless mobility operations
- AMC’s #1 C-17 brake repair hub; refurbished 120 brake assemblies; critical support for 8 different nations/enabled 9K worldwide sorties
- Expertly launched 216 1A1/1B1 missions; one mission every 1.5 days; zero maintenance cancels or delays for an excellent 100% delivery rate
- Leader of Boeing heavy maintenance; oversaw 1K Boeing specific C-17 repair actions; primed $14B modernization upgrade for 63 C-17 aircraft
(Updated June 2021)