BOOS conducted research together with the magazine Vrij Nederland. The broadcast, which can be seen on YouTube this afternoon from 4 p.m., is about how the rules would have been bent for Pieter van Vollenhoven, his son Pieter Christiaan and his cousin Lucas van Lippe-Biesterfeld. For example, the latter was reportedly appointed as an officer without prior training.
Rank Van Vollenhoven
Van Vollenhoven would also have obtained his rank of commodore titular of the air force without difficulty. “He got this because he has a warm personality, because he often gave advice – whether or not unsolicited – and because when he sat at the dinner table with his sons he had the same rank and we had to get rid of that,” said a source, according to Hofman. .
Watch the conversation in Beau here:
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Hofman thinks it’s crazy that the royal family is given such a high rank while there is no service in return, for example. As an example, he mentions the British Prince Harry, who was sent to Afghanistan. “Now you’re looking at people who are favored, who are not called back and who get that extra salary.”
Commander response
Commander of the Armed Forces Onno Eichelsheim stated last night at Op1 in a response to the upcoming episode that it should be possible to train people at Defense in different ways. He does not think it is true that exceptions are made for the Oranges. “You have to weigh up on an individual basis how many courses you give these people,” he says.
“We also trained this person in a different way,” Eichelsheim says about Lucas van Lippe-Biesterfeld. “Not as the specific military training he needs, but specifically trained for the tasks we gave him afterwards.” He thinks that should be possible. “You can differentiate in what you give someone. I think you should be able to do that every time.”
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