Tim Sloth Jørgensen (born 21 October 1951) is a senior officer in the

Royal Danish Navy The Royal Danish Navy ( da, Søværnet) is the sea-based branch of the Danish Defence force. The RDN is mainly responsible for maritime defence and maintaining the sovereignty of Danish territorial waters (incl. Faroe Islands and Greenland). ...

and former

Chief of Defence The chief of defence (or head of defence) is the highest ranked commissioned officer of a nation's armed forces. The acronym CHOD is in common use within NATO and the European Union as a generic term for the highest national military position withi ...

of the Danish Armed Forces. Jørgensen resigned as chief of staff on 4 October 2009 due to his involvement in a controversial fake Arabic translation of ''

Jæger – i krig med eliten ''Jæger – i krig med eliten'' (Jaeger: At War with Denmark's Elite Special Forces) is a book by former Jægerkorpset member Thomas Rathsack. It details operations by Danish special forces fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Danish Department ...

'', a book by a former special forces member the Danish Army Command tried to suppress. In 2012, he became an advisor to

Terma A/S Terma A/S is a Danish weapon and aerospace manufacturer for both civilian and military applications, and is owned by the Danish company Thrige Holding A/S. It is Denmark's largest company within the aerospace and weapon industry, employing appro ...

, a Danish defense and aerospace manufacturer.

Awards and decorations

DNK Order of Danebrog Commander 1st Degree BAR

Commander 1st Class of the

Order of the Dannebrog The Order of the Dannebrog ( da, Dannebrogordenen) is a Danish order of chivalry instituted in 1671 by Christian V. Until 1808, membership in the order was limited to fifty members of noble or royal rank, who formed a single class known ...

Queen Ingrid Commemorative Medal * The_Nordic_Blue_Berets_Medal_of_Honour_ribbon

The Nordic Blue Berets Medal of Honour * DK_Haederstegn_for_god_tjeneste

Navy Long Service Medal * NATO Medal Yugoslavia ribbon bar

NATO medal for the former Yugoslavia

References

1951 births 20th-century Danish military personnel 21st-century Danish military personnel Chiefs of the Royal Danish Navy Commanders First Class of the Order of the Dannebrog Danish admirals Living people People from Randers {{Denmark-mil-bio-stub