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Marcel Urlings | |
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Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army | |
In office 30 August 2002 –5 September 2005 | |
Preceded by | Lieutenant general Ad van Baal |
Succeeded by | Lieutenant general Peter van Uhm |
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Born | [1] Kelmond ,Netherlands [1] | 4 July 1950
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Years of service | 1973-2005 |
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Lieutenant-general Marcel Urlings (born 4 July 1950) is a former Dutch military officer who served as Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army between 2002 and 2005. [2] [3]
He served as the commander of the First German-Dutch Army Corps in Münster. During the First Gulf War,he led an engineering battalion that provided humanitarian aid to Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq. Urlings is the vice-chairman of the AIV committee that prepared the report titled European Defence Cooperation. [4]