Logistic
and Training Command 1
Commando
Logistiek en Opleidingen (CLO)
| Unit |
Location |
Peace
Strength |
War
Strength |
| Staff
Logistic
and Training Command [a] |
Zeist |
?
|
?
|
Jet
Engine Depot/Woensdrecht Air Base [b]
|
Woensdrecht |
?
|
? |
└ 80
Air Force Security Squadron [c]
|
Woensdrecht |
-/6/15 (21)
|
5/16/136
(157) |
| └ Air
Force Security platoon x 2 |
– |
– |
1/4/41 (46)
x 2 |
└ 516
Object Security Squadron [Royal Army] [d]
|
– |
– |
5/15/105
(125)
|
└ 522
Object Security Squadron [Royal Army] [d]
|
– |
– |
5/15/105
(125)
|
| Aircraft
Materiel Depot [e] |
Gilze-Rijen |
? |
? |
| General
and Technical Service Materiel Depot [f] |
Soestduinen |
? |
? |
| Electronic
Materiel Depot [g] |
Rhenen |
? |
? |
| └ Air
Force Security platoon [c] |
Rhenen |
-/3/17 (20) |
1/6/50 (57) |
| Royal
Air Force Motorised Transport Group [h] |
Zeist |
? |
? |
| Air
Force Meteorological Squadron [i] |
De
Bildt |
? |
? |
| Air
Safety Training and Test Centre/Additional Pilot Training [j] |
Soesterberg |
? |
? |
| Air Force
Officer School [j] [k] |
Gilze-Rijen |
? |
? |
| Air
Force Royal Cadre School [l] |
Schaarsbergen |
? |
? |
| Air
Force Electronical and Technical School |
Deelen |
? |
? |
| Air
Force Instruction and Military Training School [m] |
Nijmegen |
? |
? |
| Detachment
State Aviation School Eelde [j] |
Eelde |
? |
? |
| Netherlands
Training Detachment Erndtebrück [n] |
Erndtebrück
(GE) |
? |
? |
| Netherlands
Training Detachment Sheppard [o] |
Wichita
Falls (US) |
? |
? |
| Netherlands
Training Detachment Fort Rucker [p] |
Dale
County (US) |
? |
? |
| Netherlands
Training Detachment Fort Bliss [q] |
El
Paso (US) |
? |
? |
| Defence
Pipeline Organisation [r] |
Noordwijk |
? |
? |
| Royal Air
Force Band |
Nijmegen |
? |
? |
Notes
| a. | Peacetime
organisation. Headed by Commander Logistic and Training
(Commandant Logistiek en Opleidingen, CLO). Comprising four sections:
Personnel, Training and Operations, Logistics, Economic Management; and
a Disbandment Detachment. On mobilisation Logistic
and Training Command would close
down, the staff, insofar not occupied with training or schooling
aspects, merging with the staff of Air Force Tactical Command
to form
the Tactical Air Force War Staff (Oorlogsstaf Tactische
Luchtstrijdkrachten, OS/TL). In wartime all units subordinate to CLO
shown here would be placed under the Tactical Air Force War Staff,
insofar not closing down (units shown in grey in the chart above) and
with the exception of the three training detachments in the United
States (NODs), which would be placed under the semi-ministerial Royal
Air Force War Staff (Oorlogsstaf Koninklijke Luchtmacht, OS/KLu); see Royal Air Force, note a. Commander Logistic and Training would in
wartime remain responsible for training, presumably as
part of the Tactical Air Force War Staff; however, there were no preparations to establish
a wartime training organisation.2
|
| b. |
The
Jet Engine Depot (Depot Straalmotoren, DSM) was located at Woensdrecht Air Base (Vliegbasis Woensdrecht, Vlb WDT). The Jet Engine Depot was responsible for the
maintenance, repair and overhaul of (jet) aircraft engines
and the jet engines of guided air defence weapons (I-HAWK and Nike Hercules), which responsibility included the
storage of and supply of spare parts. Woensdrecht Air Base was, in
NATO terms, a Reserve Airfield, a Collocated Operating Base and a Lines of Communications Airfield (LOC).3
|
| c. |
Peacetime and wartime strengths include a security dog group (hondengeleiders) of -/2/9 (11).4 |
| d. | Filled
by mobilisable personnel from 16 Armoured Infantry Battalion (RIM)
after their fourteen to sixteen-month RIM period in that unit had
expired, up to eight and a half years prior to mobilisation.5 |
| e. |
The Aircraft Materiel Depot (Depot Vliegtuigmaterieel, DVM) was responsible for
the maintenance, repair and overhaul of aircraft and aircraft parts, which included the storage of and
supply of spare parts.6 |
| f. |
The
General and Technical Service Materiel Depot (Depot Algemeen Technisch
en Intendancematerieel, DATIM) was responsible for storing, assaying
and distributing a large variety of articles.7 |
| g. |
The
Electronic Materiel Depot (Depot Elektronisch Materieel, DELM) was
responsible for the storage, maintenance, repair and calibration of
electronic parts and the supply of these to operational units. DELM
further provided technical support to units, as well as a number
of specialist, system-specific training courses.7 |
| h. |
The
Royal Air Force Motorised Transport Group (Motortransportgroep
Koninklijke Luchtmacht, MTG KLu) handled transports that fell outside a
radius of thirty kilometres from air force locations or units.
Within that radius units handled their transports themselves. The group
had a small detachment with a few truck tractors and aircraft trailers
at Gilze-Rijen Air Base.8 |
| i. | The Air Force Meteorological Squadron (Luchtmacht Meteorologisch Squadron, LMS) provided training for meteorological personnel.9 See Air Force Tactical Command, Part VI. It probably had another role as well, since the squadron would not be disbanded in wartime. | | j. | Aspirant
pilots who had passed a general selection and aeromedical examination
started their training and went through further selection with the Detachment
(at the) State Aviation School Eelde
(Detachement Rijksluchtvaarstschool Eelde, RLS Eelde) which provided
the combined Pilot Selection and Training Course (Selectie
Vliegeropleiding, SVO). The student pilots then went to the Air Force
Officer School (Luchtmacht Officiersschool, LUOS) in Gilze-Rijen for a
seventeen-week officer's course. This preliminary phase was concluded
with four to five-week training at the Air
Safety Training and Test Centre/Additional Pilot Training (Vliegveiligheids Oefen- en Testcentrum/Aanvullende Opleiding Vliegers, VOTC/AOV) in Soesterberg.
(For part of the further training of
jet pilots, see note o.) The combination of selection and training during the SVO led to an
unacceptably high failure rate; unacceptable not only financially but
especially in view of the Royal Air Force's large pilot shortages in
the
second half of the 1980s. From 1988 selection and training were
decoupled in a reorganised structure, which by 1992
had reduced the failure rate of student pilots from thirty-five to
twelve percent.10 | | k. | The
Air Force Officer School (Luchtmacht Officiersschool, LUOS)
handled the schooling and training of officers on a fixed-term
contract, officers for special services,
academically educated reserve officers and medical reserve
officers. In addition LUOS provided a specialist officer's course for
excelling adjutants and a number of other specialist courses. At the
end of the 1980s LUOS had 50 teachers and a capacity of 500-600
students per year.11 | | l. | The
Air Force Royal Cadre School (Koninklijke Kaderschool Luchtmacht, KKSL) handled the
schooling and training of sub-officers.12 | | m. | The
Air Force Instruction and Military Training School (Luchtmacht
Instructie en Militaire Opleidingen School, LIMOS) handled
the initial schooling and training of, predominantly, conscript
soldiers and corporals, of which a large portion would go to the Air
Force Security units (Luchtmacht Beveiliging, LB). In 1990 LIMOS
comprised four training squadrons and a staff of 550 military and
civilians.12 |
| n. | Netherlands Training Detachment Erndtebrück (Nederlands
Opleidingsdetachement Erndtebrück, NOD Erndtebrück) in West Germany was part of the
International Cell (ITC) of 5 (GE) Training Group of 2 (GE) Air Force
Technical School (Internationale Ausbildungststelle, V. Lehrgruppe,
Technische Schule der Luftwaffe 2), training (ground-based) radar
operating personnel,
probably in the context of the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment
(NADGE). The ITC was a joint training unit of the German, Netherlands
and Belgian air forces.13 | | o. | Netherlands Training Detachment Sheppard (Nederlands
Opleidingsdetachement Sheppard, NOD Sheppard) was part of the Euro-NATO
Joint Jet Training Programme (ENJJPT) at Sheppard Air Force Base in
Texas, United States. ENJJPT trained student air force pilots of twelve
NATO countries, including the US and Canada, in the primary principles
of jet flying. The programme took fifty-five weeks, usually ten to
twenty Netherlands student pilots took part.14 | | p. | Netherlands Training Detachment Fort Rucker (Nederlands
Opleidingsdetachement Fort Rucker, NOD Fort Rucker) supported the Royal
Air Force's aspirant helicopter pilots who received their
thirty-week initial helicopter training at the US Army Aviation Centre
in Fort Rucker, Texas where they were placed in the Euro-NATO classes.
After this the student pilots completed their training with 300
Squadron of the Light Aircraft Group at Deelen Air Base, which took thirty-eight weeks.15 | | q. | Netherlands Training Detachment Fort Bliss (Nederlands
Opleidingsdetachement Fort Bliss, NOD Fort Bliss) probably supported
the training of technical personnel for the I-HAWK-equipped
anti-aircraft guided weapon units (3 and 5 Guided Weapon Group), which took place with the producer
of the HAWK system, Raytheon in El Paso, Texas, United States. This
ended somewhere in 1985 when the training was relocated to the Anti-Air
Artillery School of the Belgian Army in Lombardsyde, Belgium. The NOD
(further) supported the training of technical personnel for the
Nike Hercules-equipped anti-aircraft guided weapon units (12 Guided Weapon Group), which training was
provided at the NAMSA Nike Training Centre (NNTC) in Fort Bliss. The NOD was probably located with the US Army Air Defense School (USAADS) in said place.16 | | r. | The
Defence Pipeline Organisation (Defensie Pijpleidingsorganisatie, DPO)
was responsible for operating and maintaining the Netherlands part of
the NATO Central European Pipeline System (CEPS), which was known as 5
(NL) Pipeline Division, in the Royal Air Force abbreviated to 5 PLD. 5
PLD comprised a total length of ± 1,100 kilometres worth of fuel
pipeline. Of the air bases only Leeuwarden Air Base was not connected
to the system; it was supplied by fuel lighters.
As the Royal Air Force was by far the largest consumer of fuel, the DPO
was incorporated in the Directorate Materiel Royal Air Force
(Directie Materieel Koninklijke Luchtmacht) of the Ministry of Defence
in November 1983; Logistic and Training Command presumably held
operational control. In wartime operational control would pass to NATO Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Central Europe (CINCENT).17 |
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| 1. |
|
Organisation: NL-HaNA
2.13.182, inv. nr. 663, Concept krijgsmachtdeelplan
Koninklijke Luchtmacht 1987-1996 d.d. 20 december 1985, 88-89.
NIMH
430, inv. nr. 54 (Slagorde KL stand 1 juli 1985),
Blad S2. NIMH
723, inv. nr. 75, Organisatie en organisatieschema's m.b.t. de KLu d.d.
1 augustus 1984, 22. HTK 1983-1984,
kamerstuknr. 18169 ondernr. 2
(Defensienota 1984-1993), 114. Air Force Security and Object security units: NL-HaNA 2.13.113, inv. nr. 814, Indeling LB/OB-eenheden d.d. 18 februari 1980, Bijlagen A, C, D en E. NIMH 430, loc. cit. |
| 2. | | NIMH 723, inv. nr. 75, op. cit., 32. NL-HaNA
2.13.182, inv. nr. 663, op.cit., 85. This 1985 document notes that the
need for a wartime training organisation was "under study". | | 3. | | Jet Engine Depot: Van Loo, Crossing, 75-76. Reserve Airfield: to be operational within three days on
order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, enabling one combat
aircraft squadron to operate from the air base under wartime conditions. Collocated Operating Base (COB):
air base that could accommodate one or more allied combat
aircraft
squadrons in times of crisis or war. This was laid down
in bilateral agreements (Netherlands-US and Netherlands-UK). Lines of Communications airfield (LOC): airfield or air base
earmarked to receive and transfer allied reinforcements in the form of
personnel, equipment or supplies coming in from the United States and
possibly the UK. LOC airfields would be opened on NATO Simple Alert, or sooner if bilaterally agreed. NL-HaNA
2.13.182, inv. nr. 663, op.cit., 56-57, 61.
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| 4. |
|
NL-HaNA
2.13.113, inv. nr. 814, op. cit., Bijlage E. |
| 5. | | NIMH 205A/10, Aflossing van mobilisabele eenheden en -aanvullingen d.d. 11 november 1983. |
| 6. |
|
Van Loo, op. cit., 76.
The author appears to combine the responsibilities of DSM and DVM; here
they have been specified by what the unit names suggest. |
| 7. |
|
Van Loo, op. cit., 76. |
| 8. | | Van Loo, op. cit., 137 en voetnoot 166 aldaar. | | 9. | | Van Loo, op. cit., 132. | | 10. | | Van Loo, op. cit., 105-110. | | 11. | | Van Loo, op. cit., 89-90. | | 12. | | Van Loo, op. cit., 89. |
| 13. | | Dragoner, Bundeswehr, Teil 3, 38. Website Erndtebrück, Luftwaffenstandort Erndtebrück. | | 14. | | Van Loo, op. cit., 113-114. | | 15. | | De Jong, Vlucht, 208. Helfferich, Nederlandse Koninklijke, 50. | | 16. | | Nederlof, Blazing Skies,
119, 121-122.
I-HAWK training at Lombardsyde: the Royal Air Force had trained
technical HAWK personnel there up to 1978, when Belgium
initially decided not to join the Improved HAWK programme. NAMSA:
NATO
Maintenance and Supply Agency. The NTCC was established in or around
1980 to accommodate NATO countries that, contrary to the US, had not
yet disposed of the Nike. Ibid. | | 17. | | Van Loo, op. cit., 141-142. Operational control CINCENT in wartime: NL-HaNA
2.13.182, inv. nr. 663, op. cit., 88. CEPS: see also Royal Army, 1 (NL) Corps, Corps Logistic Command, passim. |
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