fotoreportages

zondag, 7 februari 2010
fotoreportages

This gallery contains images taken by DDP during an exercise in coastal operations by Dutch Special Forces on the Caribbean island of Curaçao in November 2009.Our images appeared in the January 2010 edition of the Dutch FHM and issue 10/2009 of Landmacht, the official Dutch army monthly magazine. ...
dinsdag, 18 augustus 2009
fotoreportages

A selection of images from Leo's trip to Uruzgan province in Afghanistan in April 2009.Here he spent some time with members of 12 InfBat Regiment Van Heutz, 11 AMB (AASLT) "Red Devils". ...
dinsdag, 2 september 2008
fotoreportages

Units destined for deployment to Afghanistan go through a training programm that sets individual skills upto batallion level. Units rarely deploy organic, meaning they get added so-called enablers from different units, from individuals to complete platoons. Once in Afghanistan they must be able to operate as a single unit, know of each others capabilities. One of the last tests of any Dutch unit going on deployment is a Combined Arms Team, or CAT, in Bergen-Hohne in Germany. Here all units, except air, will be present for a live fire...
donderdag, 29 mei 2008
fotoreportages

The toughest speed-march in the Dutch military is the one during commando selection. In the Belgian Ardennes instructors push every candidate to the limit of endurance, until everyone of the candidate will have had his "moment", the point where he is willing to give up, but still goes on. ...
donderdag, 20 maart 2008
fotoreportages

A cold weather, mountain terrain training by Dutch army Commando's brought me to Northern Norway. Not to do a story on the exercise, but to photograph the men in snowy conditions. The unit and it's support element had made several Hardened Aircraft Shelters (or HAS in NATO terms) their home for almost six weeks. The first weeks were used to train the unit, 104 Commando company, in cold weather operations and survival. The last two weeks the unit ran an exercise with Special Forces of other NATO countries. Three teams were tasked to destroy...
Page 2 of 212
© 1998-2025 Dutch Defence Press. All rights reserved.