In 1990, Nicole de Wolf began her training at the Royal Military Academy in Breda. Aft er graduating she was appointed platoon commander with 160 Heavy Transport Company. In early 1996, she deployed with her platoon to the former Yugoslavia with IFOR 1. Aft er this mission, she was posted as officer for road transport in 11 Signal Battalion of the Multinational Division (Central). In 1999, she was promoted to the rank of captain and posted to the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in Rheindahlen as Staff officer 3 Movements Air. In this role, she was deployed to Thessaloniki for KFOR in 1999. In 2002, de Wolf was posted to the Air Assault Brigade, where she obtained her red beret in 2003 and was deployed to Iraq with SFIR 4 in 2004. In 2005, she became commander of the job specific training for supply and transport officers, aft er which she completed the Intermediate Command and Staff Course in 2007.

Subsequently, she was promoted to the rank of major and became the first female commander of the Air Assault Brigade’s 11 Supply Company, where she supported the readiness and deployment of the brigade in Afghanistan. In 2011, she completed the Advanced Command and Staff Course.

In 2012, she was posted to the Defence Materiel Organisation’s Directorate of Operational Readiness in The Hague. During this time, she was also interim chair of the Defence Staff and Central Staff employee participation committee. In 2014, in the rank of lieutenant colonel, she was deployed to MINUSMA in Mali as the first commander of the Joint Support Detachment and as Senior National Representative. During her deployment she was responsible for the further construction of the Dutch camp in Gao, and for logistics support for all Dutch units in Mali.

Following this deployment she was appointed head of operational logistics in the Royal Netherlands Army and was responsible for all logistics support planning of army units in missions, standby missions and large-scale exercises.

In 2016, she was posted to the Air Assault Brigade as Head of G5 (Plans), where she was responsible for all planning tasks for the brigade, including the initial deployment planning of the Long Range Recce Patrol Group deployment to Mali.

In 2019, de Wolf was promoted to the rank of colonel and became Head of General Support in the Personal Office of the Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army. In this role, she was an adviser on the positioning of the Army in a political-administrative and social context. While in this role, she completed the Interdepartmental Management Studies course at the Netherlands School of Public Administration.

In April 2021, she was promoted to brigadier general and appointed project director for Improving Management Support and Advice (Verbeteren Bestuursondersteuning en Advies, VBOA). The VBOA project director is tasked with ensuring the further professionalisation of management support and taking care that comprehensive advice given to political and administrative leaders is robust and futureproof.

In August 2022, she became responsible for improving the flow of information from the Ministry of Defence to Parliament and society in the context of the Defensie Open op Orde information management and transparency programme.

From 1 May 2023, she will conduct the Land Support Enabling study for the Royal Netherlands Army. This study aims to provide insight into the necessary land support enabling capability for the deployment of Dutch capabilities in the land domain within the new NATO Force Model.

In March 2024 General Nicole de Wolf took over command of the Operational Support Command Land from General Roy Sillen.

Nicole de Wolf lives in Velp, near Arnhem, with Jacco. Her main hobbies are cooking, diving and golf, music and singing, reading, and classical ballet.