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CHARLESTON, SC (AP) -- A new commander is taking over the 315th Airlift Wing at Charleston Air Force Base.

Col. Steven Chapman takes command Sunday from the current commander, Col. Timothy Wrighton.

Chapman has 30 years of military service and has logged 5,100 flight hours in a variety of aircraft.

Wrighton is being transferred to Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Georgia as an assistant to the commander of the 22nd Air Force.

The 315th wing is an Air Force Reserve Command unit and has 2,500 airmen assigned to it.

The unit's pilots and crews fly the huge C-17 Globemaster transports, which can carry helicopters, tanks, large cargo loads and about 100 paratroopers.

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