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About 11 Air Mobile Brigade
The World Championship military pentathlon is hosted by the 11 Airmobile Brigade (AASLT) “7 December” on their barracks: the Oranjekazerne in Schaarsbergen (municipality of Arnhem). 11 Airmobile Brigade is a unique unit within the Royal Netherlands Army. It can deploy within 20 days worldwide and is extremely mobile due to their light packing and cooperation with our helicopter squadrons.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, there was a need for a rapidly deployable unit which could be sent to flashpoints all over the world. The Airmobile Brigade was established in 1992 to meet this requirement. The brigade comprises approximately 2,400 men and women and it works closely with helicopter squadrons of the Netherlands Defence Helicopter Command. The Airmobile Brigade consists of combat, combat-support and logistical units. If the brigade and helicopters are involved in an integrated operation, they are known as the Air Manoeuvre Brigade.
Air Assault, Air Mechanised, Airmobile and Airborne operations: all forms of integrated operations carried out by ground and air components are called Air Manoeuvre. Air Assault operations are by far the most difficult to carry out, demanding the integrated use of combat and transport helicopters and specially equipped combat and support units on the ground. 11 Airmobile Brigade (AASLT) “7 December” is specialised in Air Assault (AASLT) operations and therefore has the AASLT abbreviation in its name. Division “7 December” was the first post-war operational unit that was deployed immediately after its establishment.
The Airmobile Brigade can be deployed to a great variety of operations, like worldwide peace missions, humanitarian aid operations and support operations during national disasters. The Airmobile Brigade has participated in peace missions in Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The red beret is an international sign of the airmobile specialism. All airmobile personnel, from soldier to general, must successfully complete the special airmobile training before receiving the red beret. The physical condition and mental resilience of airmobile servicemen are strenuously tested during the programme. To wear the red beret means to earn it first. ‘Nec temere, nec timide’ is Latin for ‘neither in haste nor in fear’, is therefore the Airmobile Brigade’s credo. Once airmobile training is completed, members of the brigade continue training for deployment anywhere in the world. The falcon is the symbol of the 11 Airmobile Brigade. This slender bird of prey has a sharp eye and strikes rapidly and effectively from the air, characteristics which can also be applied to the brigade.
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