Part one of a five-part video series showcasing the mission of the 375th Air Mobility Wing. This video highlights the men and women of the 375th Medical Group. (U.S. Air Force video by Mr. Tom Jozwiak, Staff Sgt. Michael Cossaboom, Airman 1st Class Kylie Walker and Airman 1st Class Kristin Savage)
After 35 years of C-21 operations, the Air Force is celebrating 2019 as “the Year of the Lear” with upgrades for the airframe and changes with the units that fly it.
A $38 million avionics upgrade for the fleet is underway and a consolidation effort is moving four aircraft from Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, to join Scott’s 10 C-21s by late summer, bringing the total of 14 aircraft assigned here.
Deep in the basement of the 375th Medical Group, behind a series of doors and out of the way of most hospital traffic, is a long, narrow room that looks like an old high-school “shop class.”
Bits and pieces of broken defibrillators and other medical gear sit on workbenches, waiting to be fixed by 11 technicians who call the workshop home.
