Tom Middendorp
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General Tom Middendorp |
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Tom Middendorp in 2015
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| Birth name | Thomas A. Middendorp |
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6 September 1960 Rheden, Netherlands |
| Allegiance |
 Netherlands
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| Service/branch | Royal Netherlands Army |
| Years of service | 1979–present |
| Rank |
 General
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| Commands held |
Chief of Defence Task Force Uruzgan 13th Light Brigade |
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Thomas A. "Tom" Middendorp (born 6 September 1960) is a Royal Netherlands Army general. He is the Chief of Defence of the Armed forces of the Netherlands since 28 June 2012. He previously served as the Commander of Task Force Uruzgan part of the International Security Assistance Force from 2 February 2009 until 3 August 2009.
Thomas Middendorp was born on 6 September 1960 in Rheden in the Province of Gelderland.
Middendorp joined the Dutch Army in 1979, attending officers training at the Koninklijke Militaire Academie in Breda. Opting to join the Engineering Corps, he followed up his academy training with an additional one-year course at the Engineering Training Centre in Vught.
Having completed his training, Middendorp was posted to Ermelo in 1984 where he was given command of an armored engineering unit. He held this command for two years, after which (in 1986) he was transferred to Breda. He was posted to the Defence Real Estate Management Agency regional directorate as head of the project management agency. In 1989 he was transferred to the Dutch Army base in Seedorf, where he assumed the command of the B company, 41st Engineering Battalion.
From 1992 to 1994 Middendorp attended Command School (Dutch): Hogere Militaire Vorming. Following this training he was posted to the Army staff and put in charge of developing and implementing new real estate management policy in light of the deactivation of the Dutch draft. Completing this posting Middendorp attended the United States Army Command and General Staff College starting in 1996.
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