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NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Spain

multinational military unit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ18378769 ↗
Source-derived summary

The NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Spain (NRDC-SP) is a corps headquarters of the Spanish Army. It was established in 2000 as a High Readiness Force (HRF) of NATO. Its facilities are located at the "Jaime I" Military Base in Bétera, province of Valencia.

History

The NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Spain was established in 2000.

Structure

The NATO Rapid Deployable Headquarters can be quickly deployed for disaster management, humanitarian assistance, peace support, counterterrorism and high-intensity warfighting.

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“NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Spain” enters the record as multinational military unit. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what NATO, Rapid and Deployable can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Spain” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.