A Lieutenant Colonel in charge of border control at Schiphol airport, was arrested late last week for assaulting a soldier in training. The Lieutenant Colonel's wife accused the cadet of assaulting her during officers training, but that assault was covered up, the Lieutenant Colonel's lawyer Michael Ruperti told newspaper AD.
Royal Military Academy
Oct 25 '17 07:42
Oct 10 '17 10:50
The Ministry of Defense is launching an investigation into a former soldier being sexually abused in 1982, a spokesperson confirmed to ANP. Ex-soldier Ronald Vreeburg says that he was abused by five other soldiers at the Royal Military school in Weert, Limburg when he was 17 years old.
According to Vreeburg, he reported the abuse to the peloton leadership after it happened, but he was not taken seriously. In 2015 he spoke to the Inspector General of the Armed Forces, and was told that the case was past its statute of limitations, the news wire reports.
Jan 29 '15 11:44
Defense Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert apologized in a letter to former soldier Ismail Selvi for spying on him. In the letter she wrote that the Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) approached people in Selvi's area and that they were not allowed to do that.
Feb 14 '14 14:06
The Dutch army is creating cybercommando's, a crack team of hackers who will be trained to attack enemy lines, online.
