Namur continued to host the Belgian Army's paratroopers until their departure in 1977.

Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Crahay received the U. S. Army's Distinguished Service Cross for his leadership of the Belgian battalion during the battle.

Soon afterwards, in early 1886, Captain Léon Roger ( of the Belgian Army's Carabiniers ) was sent to the Congo with orders to establish the force.

It is believed that the seized vehicles ( which included 15 Belgian Army Pandur APCs leased to Beninise army troops ) and parts have been used to equip the Military of Equatorial Guinea, and such seizure are considered by some as an act of piracy.

* The Belgian Military Cemetery, containing the graves of almost 1800 Belgian soldiers, killed during World War I.

He lectured at the museum for sciences and letters and at the Belgian Military School.

Until the police reformation around 2001, the Belgian Rijkswacht / Gendarmerie was, besides its civilian policing tasks, responsible for the nation's Military Police duties.

The Belgian Military Police has also taken part in multinational peacekeeping missions such as Afghanistan, Kosovo and Congo.

During the 19th century the Military William Order was awarded to military serving in the campaign against the Belgian Revolution and military serving in the Netherlands East Indies, mostly in the Aceh War.

The Belgian Military Police Group ( Groupe Police Militaire / Groep Militaire Politie-Gp MP ) is a joint force made up of about 200 personnel assigned to five detachments located around the country.

In early 1918 he was awarded the Croix de Guerre from the Belgian government, and then later the Military Medal.

He was also awarded the Military Medal ( MM ), and the Belgian Order of Leopold ( with palm ), in the grade of Chevalier.

Taught jointly by Vesalius College, the Belgian Royal Military Academy, the Institute for European Studies ( IES ) and University of Kent, the course provides students with unique insights into the causes of major contemporary conflicts and crises, and critically assesses the responses of NATO, the EU and United Nations.

In Europe, the infantry of the French Republican Guard, cadets at Saint-Cyr, cadets at the Belgian Royal Military Academy, cadets at the Portuguese Colégio Militar and Pupilos do Exército military schools, the Italian Horse Guards Corps, Horse Artillery and cadets at the Military Academy of Modena, the Danish Guard Hussar Regiment, and the Spanish Royal Guard and 1st Infantry Regiment all have shakos as part of their respective ceremonial uniforms.

It succeeded the Military Action and Intelligence Service ( Service d ' action et de renseignements militaires, SARM ), and according to Belgian official sources in 2002, falls under the authority, ' at least officially ', of the Congolese Armed Forces ( Forces armées congolaises, FAC ), now succeeded by the FARDC.

Nearby is the Belgian Royal Military Academy building.

A Belgian CATI 90 displayed in the Royal Military Museum Brussels ( 2010 )

Dirk Bikkembergs was born in Cologne, Germany, as his dad was in the Military ( Belgian Army ).

In 1916 he was made Military Governor of the Belgian Occupied East African Territories.

* Bryant Shaw, Force Publique, Force Unique: The Military in the Belgian Congo 1914-1939 Ph. D dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1984

According to David Akerman, Ludo de Witte and Kris Hollington, the firing squads were commanded by a Belgian, Captain Julien Gat ; another Belgian, Police Commissioner Verscheure, had overall command of the execution site.

Belgian Police Commissioner Gerard Soete later admitted in several accounts that he and his brother led the first and a second exhumation.

For the personal protection of the King and the Royal Family, as well as for the surveillance of the royal estates, the Belgian Federal Police at all times provides a Security Detail to the Royal Palace, commanded by a Chief Police Commissioner.

* Directorate of special units ( Directie speciale eenheden )-special units of the Belgian Federal Police

The value of the police dog has been recognised by all to such an extent that there are over 2500 police dogs employed amongst the various police forces in the UK with the German Shepherd still the most popular breed for general purpose work with the Belgian Shepherd Malinois catching up fast, proven when a Belgian Malinois female called Metpol Kairo Demi bred by Steve Dean of the Metropolitan Police, handled by PC Graham Clarke won the 2008 National Police Dog Trials with the highest score ever recorded.

It usually programs veteran acts like Phil Collins, The Police, Depeche Mode or Simple Minds, supplemented with younger mainstream Belgian acts.

Police services in Belgium at both the federal and local level have uniformed Police Agents who have limited police powers to enforce traffic, parking and public nuisance laws ; unlike Belgian police officers, police agents are unarmed.

*: Belgian Federal Police

** Belgian Federal Police Water Police Branch ( DAC )

Sometime around February 21, 2006, the Razorback2 servers were raided and seized by the Federal Belgian Police.

Postal service in Belgium is in many cases performed by Belgian Post Group, a semi-privat public company which has as a monopoly on letters until 50g weight.

Important distributors in Belgium are AMP, Deltamedia, Belgian Post Group, Belgische Distributiedienst and Press Shop.

Major Dutch-language weekly magazines in 2008 are Kerk en Leven ( Drukkerij en Uitgeverij Halewijn ) ( 409, 817 ), Dag Allemaal ( 402, 097 ), HUMO ( 227, 614 ), Libelle ( magazine ) ( Sanoma Belgium ) ( 216, 506 ), TV-Blad ( 158, 283 ), Story ( Belgian magazine ) ( Sanoma Belgium ) ( 159, 833 ), Plus Magazine ( Belgium ) ( 134, 242 ), TV-Familie / Blik ( 129, 328 ), Flair ( magazine ) ( Sanoma Belgium ) ( 126, 831 ), Knack ( magazine ) ( Roularta Media Group ) ( 126, 646 ), Trends ( magazine ) ( Roularta Media Group ),'t Pallieterke, ....

* Belgacom Group ( Belgian state )

The Luxembourg Government in exile in London made agreements for a group of seventy Luxembourg volunteers to be assigned to in 1944 the ' Artillery Group ' of the 1st Belgian Infantry Brigade ( also known as the Piron Brigade ).

* The Belgian Special Forces Group

Later Belgium contributed the I Belgian Corps to NATO's Northern Army Group.

Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Peniakoff DSO MC, a Belgian of White Russian descent, was called " Popski " by Bill Kennedy Shaw, the Intelligence Officer of the Long Range Desert Group, because his signallers had trouble with the spelling of his surname.

To his north Army Group B under General Fedor von Bock faced the Dutch and Belgian borders, while to his south Army Group C under General Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb faced the French along the Maginot Line.

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* Groupe µ, an interdisciplinary Belgian group focusing on linguistics and rhetoric

In addition, he owns about 15 % of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, a Belgian holding company, which in 2001 acquired a 25 % interest in the German media company Bertelsmann, whose subsidiaries include BMG and Random House ( the German company Bertelsmann bought the 25 % back in July 2006 ).

* Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, a Belgian holding company

The group also owns 33. 5 % of peers AB Groupe and WB Television ( parent of Belgian stations AB3, AB4 and Vidéoclick ).