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Headquarters Allied Air Forces Northern Europe was created by SHAPE on 29 March 1951. Major General R.K. Taylor, U.S. Air Force, was assigned as its commander on 2 April 1951. The Headquarters was established in London on 1 June 1951 and later transferred to Oslo, Norway on 22 June 1951. By June 1952 no units had been earmarked or allocated for ...
Battle of the Yser, Battle of Belgium: 2nd Regiment of Lancers, 4th Regiment of Lancers - Originally disbanded in 2010, reactivated in 2025 Bevrijding/5th Battalion of the Line: 1992–Present: Battle of Normandy, Liberation of Belgium 1944, Yugoslavia: Brigade Piron, Liberation Battalion, 5th Regiment of the Line 12/13th Battalion of the Line
SHAPE is situated in the village of Casteau, near Mons, Belgium. [1] ACO's and SHAPE's commander is titled Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), and is always a U.S. four-star general officer or flag officer who also serves as Commander, U.S. European Command. From 1951 to 2003, SHAPE was the headquarters of Allied Command Europe (ACE ...
Flying Group 20th Squadron (Tactical airlift), with C-130H Hercules planes (being replaced by 8 A400M Atlas in 2020-23 [ 30 ] ) Two A400Ms are currently operable, one of which is owned and partially operated by the Luxembourg Air Force, but assigned to the 20th.
Chièvres Air Base (ICAO: EBCV), also referred to as SHAPE Airfield at Chievres Air Base, [2] is a NATO airfield operated by the United States Air Force.It is located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) east southeast [1] of the Walloon town of Chièvres in the province of Hainaut, Belgium and about 12 mi (19 km) from Headquarters, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), in Casteau.
A Belgian military intelligence service was founded on 1 April 1915. The Belgian General Information and Security Service , known as ADIV (Dutch) or SGRS (French) and part of the organisational chart of Belgian Defence as ACOS-IS (Assistant Chief of Staff Intelligence and Security) provides security intelligence for the Armed Forces as well as ...
LSU women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey is the fastest coach in D-1 basketball history to get to 650 wins. Mulkey got her 650th win on Sunday as LSU took down Kentucky to get to 18-4 overall ...
The Communication and Information Systems Groups (Gp CIS), known until 2002 as the Transmission Troops or TTr (Dutch: Transmissietroepen, French: Troupes de Transmissions), are the military communications units of the Land Component of the Belgian Armed Forces.