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Marcel Urlings | |
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| Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army | |
| In office 30 August 2002 –5 September 2005 | |
| Preceded by | Lieutenant general Ad van Baal |
| Succeeded by | Lieutenant general Peter van Uhm |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 July 1950 [1] Kelmond ,Netherlands [1] |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Netherlands |
| Branch/service |  Royal Netherlands Army |
| Years of service | 1973-2005 |
| Rank |  Lieutenant-general |
Lieutenant-general Marcel Urlings (born 4 July 1950) is a former Dutch military officer who served as Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army between 2002 and 2005. [2] [3]
He served as the commander of the First German-Dutch Army Corps in Münster. During the First Gulf War,he led an engineering battalion that provided humanitarian aid to Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq. Urlings is the vice-chairman of the AIV committee that prepared the report titled European Defence Cooperation. [4]
