Leo Beulen (born 1960) is a retired Dutch

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, who served as 4th Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army between 24 March 2016 until his retirement in 2019. Leo Beulen, a

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of Dutch army joined the Royal Military Academy,

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in 1978 after graduated in 1982, he was commissioned as second lieutenant and posted 12 Armoured Anti-aircraft Artillery battery,

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as platoon commander. He continued in the Netherlands Defence College for Advanced Military Studies until 1993 was promoted to major and became the head of Operations Office, G3 (NL) Corps, he was also a chief assistant to the Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff in 1995 before he proceeds for his senior staff course in

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, he was made lieutenant colonel in 1998 and teaches at the Netherlands Defence College. He also chaired the Allied Joint Operations

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and 25 Section Armoured Anti-aircraft Artillery as commander in 1999, although, he also served the

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after joining staff 1 Division Section G3 from where he returns and was posted to General Policy Division of the Army Staff, Netherlands in 2002, and was promoted to colonel in 2003. He became Commander of the Air Defence Artillery Command in 2005 from where he led the operation unit of Air Defence Artillery was moved to Air Defence Artillery Command, Noord-Brabant, when he got promoted to brigadier general, he was made the director of Joint Coordination Centre NATO,

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in 2009, also with that he head the J3 of ISAF HQ,

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and after returning, he was appointed as Operations director in the Defence Staff HQ by then as major general in 2012.

Commands

As major general, he was posted as deputy commander of 1 Division Germany/Netherlands Corps,

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in 2014. He became lieutenant general and was appointed to be Commander of the

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on 24 March 2016.

Families

He is married to Annemiek Beulen and has three children.

References

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