ACCOMPANIED BY THE Air Force Chief of Staff, Lt Gen Sander Schnitger, the Dutch defense minister engaged in a well-planned intercept of the two F-35A Lightning IIs and two supporting KDC-10 tankers in a Gulfstream IV as they approached Europe for the first time, 24,000ft above the North Sea. With this debut deployment to the Netherlands, the minister kept her promise to give people living in the villages adjacent to the air bases at Leeuwarden and Volkel exposure to the noise footprint of F-35 operations.
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机译：在美国空军参谋长桑德·史尼格（Lt Gen Sander Schnitger）的陪同下，荷兰国防部长策划了精心策划的拦截行动，在湾流IV中拦截了两架F-35A闪电II和两架支援KDC-10的油轮。第一次是在北海24,000英尺上方。通过首次部署到荷兰，这位部长兑现了诺言，使居住在吕伐登和沃尔克空军基地附近村庄的人们能够承受F-35行动的噪音影响。
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