The Netherlands Armed Forces are the military forces of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The armed forces consist of four service branches:the Royal Netherlands Navy,the Royal Netherlands Army,the Royal Netherlands Air Force and the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee. The service branches are supplemented by various joint support organizations. In addition,local conscript forces exist on the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba and Curaçao. These operate under the auspices of the Royal Netherlands Navy and the Netherlands Marine Corps. The armed forces are part of the Ministry of Defence.
Petrus Jozef Sietse "Piet" de Jong was a Dutch politician and naval officer who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1967 to 1971. He was a member of the now-defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP),later merged into the current-day Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman was a Dutch naval officer who during World War II commanded remnants of the short-lived American-British-Dutch-Australian Command naval strike forces in the Battle of the Java Sea. He was killed in action when his flagship HNLMS De Ruyter was torpedoed during the battle,having chosen to go down with the ship.
Vice Admiral Christopher Angus Ritchie is a retired senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy,who served as Chief of Navy from 2002 to 2005.
Admiral Sir John Cunningham Kirkwood Slater,,known as Jock Slater,is a retired Royal Navy officer. He commanded a minesweeper,a frigate and then a destroyer before taking over the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious and then achieving higher command in the Navy. He served as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from 1995 to 1998:in that capacity he played a key role in the 1998 Strategic Defence Review carried out by the Labour Government that had come to power a year earlier.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Julian Robertson Oswald was a senior Royal Navy officer. After training as a gunnery specialist,Oswald commanded a frigate and then a destroyer before achieving higher command in the navy. He served as First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff in the early 1990s. In that capacity he advised the British Government on the reduction in the size of the fleet under the Options for Change restructuring programme and on the deployment of Naval Support for the Gulf War in 1991:he also made the decision that members of the Women's Royal Naval Service should be allowed to serve in Royal Navy ships.
Ton van Loon is a commander from the Netherlands. He is a Lieutenant General employed by NATO who took control of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF),Regional Command South (RC-S) on November 1,2006,until May 1,2007. From April 13,2010,until September 25,2013,he commanded I. German/Dutch Corps. He is married and has two children.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Doveton Minet Staveley was a Royal Navy officer. Staveley saw service as a minesweeper commander on coastal patrol during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation before commanding a frigate and then an aircraft carrier and ultimately achieving higher command in the Navy. He served as First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff in the late 1980s. In that role he fought hard for a fleet large enough to meet NATO commitments.
Eugène Edouard Bernard Lacomblé was an officer in the Royal Netherlands Navy from 1914 to 1942. He began and ended his career on board a ship named after Admiral Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter.
Johannes Theodorus Furstner was a Dutch naval officer and politician. Reaching the rank of lieutenant admiral,he served as Minister of the Navy during World War II in the Second Gerbrandy cabinet.
Jean Jacques Rambonnet was a Dutch naval officer and politician. Reaching the rank of vice admiral,he served as Minister of the Navy,Acting Minister of Colonies,and Acting Minister of War. He was also a member of the Council of State and,among other things,a knight in the Military Order of William. He also played an important role in Scouting in the Netherlands and served as the only Chief Scout of the Netherlands prior to 2021.
Admiral Sir Peter Charles Abbott was a Royal Navy officer and Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff of the United Kingdom.
Spyridon Avgeris was a Greek Navy officer who served as Chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff (1963–67) and of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff (1967),retiring with the rank of vice admiral.
Lieutenant general Robert (Rob) Verkerk is a retired officer of the Netherlands Marine Corps who served as the 4th Commander of the Naval Forces from 26 september 2014 untl his retirement on 22 september 2017. he was succeeded by Rob Kramer
Rear Admiral Frank Trojahn is a Danish naval officer.
Robert Peter Bauer is an officer of the Royal Netherlands Navy who has been serving as Chair of the NATO Military Committee since June 2021,succeeding Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach of the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom. He previously served as the Chief of Defence from October 2017 to April 2021,and as the Vice Chief of Defence of the Netherlands of the from 1 September 2015 to 13 July 2017. Bauer was also involved in counter-terrorist and anti-piracy operations in the Mediterranean Sea,and in the Horn of Africa.
Vice Admiral Alexandros Diakopoulos is a senior Hellenic Navy officer and in 2019–2020 the first National Security Advisor of Greece,in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Vice Admiral Sree Harilal Sarma,PVSM was an Indian Navy admiral who served as Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet (FOCEF) during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. He later served as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command from 1 March 1977 to 2 February 1978.
Michel Hofman,is a Belgian Admiral who serves as the Chief of Defence of the Belgian Armed Forces since 10 July 2020. Prior to his post,he served as the Vice-Chief of Defence.
Lieutenant General Rob Zuiderwijk is a retired Royal Netherlands Navy officer who is a former Commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy and Admiral Benelux.
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