Pease Air Force Base

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pease Air Force Base was a U.S. Air Force base under the control of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) until 1991. Portions of the former base now serve as the Pease Air National Guard Base and the Portsmouth International Airport at Pease. The base occupied land in the city of Portsmouth and the towns of Newington and Greenland, in the Seacoast Region of New Hampshire. The facility occupies 4,255 acres (1,722 ha) in Rockingham County. It is 55 miles (89 km) north of Boston and 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Kittery, Maine. Pease is currently home to the New Hampshire Air National Guard's 157th Air Refueling Wing (157 ARW), an Air Mobility Command (AMC) gained Air National Guard unit currently flying the KC-135R Stratotanker air refueling aircraft. Pease Air National Guard Base is approximately 220 acres (89 ha) in size and currently includes 40 facilities. The current base population is 380 full-time military personnel with a monthly surge of up to 950 military personnel.