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14 AFDVA
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10 x 11,8 cm
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14 AFDVA Establishment: 1958-01-12 Cancellation: 2013-01-25 Stationed in: Ede, Nunspeet, 't Harde Artillery: 155mm Howitzer M114, 105mm Sp Howitzer AMX PRA, 155mm SP Howitzer M109, 155mm SP Howitzer PzH2000 The 14th Field Artillery Division was created on January 12, 1958 by renumbering the then ready 44th Field Artillery Division. Already in 1959 14 Afdva won the Lucardi Prize for the first time, the annually awarded prize for the best field artillery department. In 1966 the department received its emblem, as it is still used by the department today. In a competition organized by the department, the gunners of the department chose the design of the reverend's writer: an onrushing red bull with its head pointed low. The department was initially based in Ede and moved to Nunspeet in 1968. In 1969 the towed howitzer M114 was replaced by the mechanized howitzer M109. On September 1, 1975 the department was mobilized. This was the result of the 1974-1983 Defense Note in which the 12th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, to which 14 Afdva was assigned, had to do without its ready field artillery division. It is only after 23 years that a little 'life' comes back to the department. As part of the '1997 combat force redeployment', a small core staff of 14 Afdva was made ready on 1 October 1998, consisting of only two people. In 1999 the 14th Field Artillery Division continued to 'awaken' from its mobilizable existence. The division was filled with personnel from existing ready units, including 41st Field Artillery Division and 154th Field Artillery Division, and was stationed in 't Harde. On June 28, 2000, the division was officially prepared. With the changed mission of the army, personnel from 14 Afdva were deployed to Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia. In 2001, for example, in the context of SFOR 9 and 10 (the Stabilization Force in the Balkans, 9th and 10th shift) the department provided personnel for a so-called Crowd, Riot and Control (CRC) platoon. Under SFOR 17, personnel from 14 Afdva relieved personnel from 41 Afdva in 2004, which had been deployed in Liaison and Observation (LOT) teams in Bosnia. On July 1, 2005, the department was expanded. On that day the 41st Field Artillery Division was disbanded and the Bravo battery of that division was added to the 14th Field Artillery Division, continuing from then on as the 14th Department of Charly Battery. The newly-baked battery adopted the chimera symbol, the symbol of the 41 Afdva Charly battery, which was discontinued in 1991. With the abolition of 41 Afdva, the Dutch artillery has only two divisions: 14th Division Field Artillery and 11th Division Horse Artillery. At the end of 2005, 14 Afdva started the conversion to the ultramodern howitzer PzH 2000, the long-awaited successor to the M109. The first two pieces of PzH 2000 were delivered in November 2005 at the Training and Training Center Fire Support (OTCVust) in 't Harde and, after tests, used for retraining the firing squad platoons of 14 Afdva. In 2006, the department was allowed to prepare for deployment to Afghanistan to contribute to Task Force Uruzgan, the Dutch contribution to the international ISAF force in the South Afghan province of Uruzgan. Three brand new PzH 2000's were broadcast. From August 2006 to December 2007, the A, B, C and D platoons of the division each stayed in the Uruzgan for approximately 4 months to provide fire support with the new cannons. After this, the 'Yellow Riders' of the 11th Horse Artillery Division took over this task. The 14th Field Artillery Division relieved the 'Yellow Riders' twice more: the C platoon went to Uruzgan for the second time from November 2008 to April 2009 and the A platoon also went a second time, from April to August 2010. Other contributions of the 14th Field Artillery Division to Task Force Uruzgan included the provision of a commander and personnel for the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and the provision of a watch detachment for watch duties in Tarin Kowt and Deh Rawod. On December 7, 2007, the division was downsized by the dissolution of the Charly battery. With the abolition of this cannon battery, the number of PzH2000 armored howitzers in the division was reduced from 18 to 12. The reduction gave substance to the defense policy, in which measures to keep defense and its activities affordable played an important role. Further cutbacks followed in 2011 and 2012: the division became part of the Fire Support Command and was officially dissolved on January 25, 2013.

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