The Netherlands in the Cold War - 1989 (sandbox)

The Netherlands The forces in the Netherlands had three tasks. One is to receive follow-on-forces out of the US via the port of big port of Rotterdam and the smaller ports of Vlissingen in the south and Eemshaven in the north. Secondly to support the NLD 1st Army Corps in the North of Germany. And as a third, to protect the German & British sectors) with SAM (Patriot & Hawk) units. Airbase Leeuwarden main occupation was air defense. Airbase Twente: 315 Sq was focused at Air Defense and the 313 Sq is smaller in size because it was busy converting to the F-16 and only FOC just in the beginning of 1990. Airbase Gilze-Rijen 314 Sq with NF-5s would deploy to Norway (Bodo) and could receive itself two US squadrons. (F-15’s came regularly from the 8th TFS Holloman during Coronet Scout exercises and F 117s in the early ‘90s). i ii iii Airbase Volkel had 306 Recce Squadron would deploy to the Peel airbase in wartime because they operated in peacetime on a flightline at Volkel, and not in shelters as they could in the Peel. Airbase Volkel main role was ground attack with also the nuclear role for 311 & 312 Sq. (no loadout possible yet in CMO). I used surrogate US F-16C-Block-30 to overrule CMO. Airbase Eindhoven was the NF-5 OCU but still had wartime duties. Airbase Ypenburg was more a sleeping airbase and mainly used for Government flights. It had a lot of revetments so it could be used for fighters. (in earlier times RNLAF F-104’s were stationed in Ypenburg.) Airbase Deelen was home to helicopters but these will deployed in Germany in wartime. This could be a good location for US A-10’s or RAF Harriers/Jaguars. Airbase Woensdrecht is a logistical center and has bunkers for the BLG-109 Tomahawk (but they never were deployed operational before the end of the cold war). This base is also a reinforcement location of the USAF. Airbase Soesterberg had a USAFE F-15C/D squadron but also had reinforcement deployments of the 71st TFS (Langley AFB Virginia) during Coronet Sidewinder e