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Brigadier General Leanne van den Hoek (born August 21, 1958 in Rotterdam) is an officer of the Royal Netherlands Army. She is the first woman to hold a flag officer rank in the Dutch military.〔(Blikop Nieuws )〕〔(Dutch military appoints first woman general ) Article from AP Worldstream August 24, 2005〕 She is married, but has chosen not to have any children.〔(Het kan dus wel ) Interview with Brigadier General Leanne van Hoek in ''De Volkskrant'' upon her promotion.〕 ==Biography== Van den Hoek originally wanted to be a police officer, which was her childhood dream.〔 However, she was refused for training due to poor eyesight.〔 She therefore applied to the military academy instead, where she passed military physical selection (just; in 1979 the Dutch military still used the same physical criteria for men as for women), despite being slightly short (1.65 meter).〔 Van den Hoek enrolled in the Koninklijke Militaire Academie at Breda as an officer cadet in 1979. After her graduation in 1983 she held several operational positions in the area of Military Logistics; these positions had her stationed both in the Netherlands and in Germany. Regarding her choice for military logistics rather than primary combat training, Van den Hoek said that back in 1983 combat positions entailed sitting around all day waiting for the Russians to invade; she didn't think that possibility very likely though, so she was more interested in logistics since an army must always eat – be it in peacetime or at war.〔 She continued her military education in 1993, enrolling in the Hogere Militaire Vorming. Completing the training in 1994, she was assigned her first command position with the 41st Mechanized Brigade in Seedorf. She held this command until 1996, when she enrolled in the German Führungsakademie. Following this general staff training, she was assigned to the Army Staff in The Hague. Van den Hoek set a first on July 17, 2001 when she became the first female battalion commander in the Royal Netherlands Army. She commanded the 200th Supply and Transport Battalion at Nunspeet and 't Harde. Promoted to colonel, she later became Director of the Defense Institute for Medical Screening and Selection. On November 1, 2005 the Dutch State Secretary of Defence Cees van der Knaap promoted Van den Hoek to the rank of brigadier general. This made General Van den Hoek the first female flag officer of the Dutch military. She has been commanding officer of the Army Personnel Department since.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leanne van den Hoek」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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