and surveillance aircraft off the coast of the former republic of Yugoslavia. The 157th also provided support to the Clean Hunter 2000 NATO exercise, with a deployment to Karup Air Base, Denmark. The 157th also deployed to fill Expeditionary Combat Support shortfalls for Operation Southern Watch and Operation Northern Watch, NORAD alert in Iceland and Alaska, support of NATO AWCS in Germany and individual rotations to Joint Forge in Istres, France. One such deployment involved 50 personnel in Southwest Asia during the summer, as part of an Air Expeditionary Forces deployment. In its 2005 BRAC Recommendations, DoD recommended to realign March Air Reserve Base, California. The 163rd Air Refueling Wing (ANG) would distribute its nine KC-135R aircraft to the 157th Air Refueling Wing (ANG), Pease Air National Guard Station (three aircraft), and several other bases. Military judgment also placed additional force structure at Pease to support the Northeast Tanker Task Force and also robust the squadron to a more effective size of 12 aircraft. KC-46 Pegasus On 22 May 2013, Air Force officials announced the preferred and reasonable alternatives for the first KC-46 Pegasus aircraft training and main operating bases. Pease Air National Guard Base was selected as the preferred alternative for the first Air National Guard KC-46A main operating base. In August 2014, Air Force leaders announced that the 157th would become the first Air National Guard unit to equip with the KC-46A. The Pegasus was scheduled to enter the Air Force inventory during fiscal year 2019. On 31 January 2019, two KC-135Rs (58-0023 and 58-0104) permanently departed Pease in preparation for arrival of the KC-46A later in the year. The final KC-135 at Pease, 57-1419, departed on 24 March 2019, for Goldwater Air National Guard Base in Phoenix, Arizona. The first KC-46A arrived at Pease on 8 August 2019. The 12th and final KC-46A was delivered on 5 February 2021. Accidents May 18, 1944 Boeing-Stearman PT-17A (42-16490) Crashed in Burma. Pilot Hoy M Hensley killed Lineage Constituted 383rd Bombardment Squadron (Light) on 28 January 1942 Activated on 2 March 1942 Redesignated 383rd Bombardment Squadron (Dive) on 27 July 1942 Redesignated 529th Fighter Bomber Squadron on 30 September 1943 Redesignated 529th Fighter Squadron on 30 May 1944 Inactivated on 6 January 1946 Redesignated 133rd Fighter Squadron, and allotted to the New Hampshire ANG, on 24 May 1946 Extended federal recognition and activated on 4 April 1947 Federalized and ordered