The new episode of the online series BOOS is about how members of the royal family would be favored at Defense. According to presenter Tim Hofman, people ‘from various quarters’ of the armed forces knocked on the door with such stories and decided to investigate. He told BEAU on Wednesday evening.
The broadcast, which can be seen on YouTube on Thursday afternoon, is about how the rules would have been bent for Pieter van Vollenhoven, his son Pieter Christiaan and his cousin Lucas. For example, the latter was allegedly appointed as an officer without prior training.
Van Vollenhoven would also have obtained his rank of commodore titular of the air force without difficulty. “He got it 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,” a source said. Hoffman.
The presenter thinks it is strange that the royal family is given such a high rank while there is no military service in return. 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 receive an extra salary.” And that while people normally ‘work themselves all the way through the disease’ to progress, according to Hofman.
Onno Eichelsheim
Commander of the Armed Forces Onno Eichelsheim believes that it should be possible to train people at Defense in different ways. He said that on Wednesday evening in talk show Op1 . Eichelsheim does not think it is true that exceptions are made for the Oranges. “You have to consider on an individual basis how many courses you give these people,” he said in the talk show on NPO 1.
The episode of BOOS is about Lucas van Lippe-Biesterfeld, the nephew of Pieter van Vollenhoven. He would have been promoted to officer after eleven months, while such training would normally take one and a half to four years. “We also trained this person in a different way. Not as the specific military training he needs, but specifically trained for the tasks we gave him afterwards,” Eichelsheim agrees.
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 as well.”
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