Veteran Institute Interview 1098: Dutch Marine Corps Deployments to Iraq and Haiti

An oral history interview from the Veterans Institute, archived by DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities. The interview subject, a Dutch Marine Corps member, discusses his deployments to northern Iraq for Operation Provide Comfort and to Jacmel, Haiti, for a reconnaissance mission. He describes his career, work as a medical nurse, the primitive living conditions in Iraq, providing development aid, and the personal impact of long absences.

Use Cases

• Analyzing veteran narratives of peacekeeping and humanitarian missions based on descriptions of Operation Provide Comfort and development aid in Haiti.
• Studying the psychological and relational impacts of military deployment based on mentions of problems caused by long absences.
• Researching Dutch Marine Corps operations in the 1990s based on the described reconnaissance mission and work in Jacmel, Haiti.
• Examining descriptions of military logistics and living conditions based on accounts of primitive lodging in Iraq.

Strengths

• Interview is part of a formal collection from the Veterans Institute, suggesting a structured archival process.
• Description provides specific contextual details about missions (Operation Provide Comfort, reconnaissance in Haiti) and locations (northern Iraq, Jacmel).
• Last updated metadata is precise, recorded as 2025-10-24 03:27:39.

Limitations

• Row count and file format are unknown, which limits suitability assessment for computational analysis.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The single-interview scope limits generalizability without access to the broader collection.

Provenance

Source

Veteranen Instituut (Veterans Institute)

Collection Method

Oral history interview.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-24 03:27:39; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Iraq and Jacmel, Haiti.