Jac Jansen (born February 29, 1956) is a retired

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of the

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(RNLAF). He was the Commander of the RNLAF from May 2008 until he left the service in 2012, he was director of

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in April 2012 and left in 2017. As of September 21, 2018 he chaires the Supervisory Board of Royal NLR. Born in

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, Jansen enrolled in the Royal Military Academy,

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as an officer cadet in 1975. He had his pilot training in

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, after receiving his military pilot certificate with his conversion to the NF-5 at Twenthe Air Base in 1981, he was posted to

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in 1981 spending seven years as an operational pilot in 314 Squadron. He later went on to the Air Force Staff School for a high staff course in 1988 to 1990. After his conversion to the

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he was made the commanding officer of 306 Squadron at

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. He later became the Section Chief for National Plans in RNLAF HQ,

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and the chief operations officer at Twenthe Air Base during the summer of 1995, later he was assigned commanding officer until the summer of 1996 for the Dutch F-16 detachment stationed at

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Commands

After his promotion to air commodore (brigadier general) in 1997 he was appointed Twenthe Air Base commander until 2000 when he left for the

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and after completing his course, he continued in the

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in The Hague where he chaired the Defence Crisis Response Centre before being posted to serve as Chief of National Plans Branch in RNLAF headquarters until 2004, although he was later deputy director for Plans and Policy, HQ Air Force in

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before moving to serve as Head of Project Group

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in the Ministry of Defence until in 2007 left for the NATO Air Command at

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and was made the chief of staff until he was promoted to as lieutenant general in May 2008 to serve as Commander of the RNLAF.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jansen, Jac 1956 births Commanders of the Royal Netherlands Air Force Graduates of the Koninklijke Militaire Academie Royal Netherlands Air Force pilots Royal Netherlands Air Force generals Living people