Lieutenant General Dennis Luyt was appointed as Commander of the Royal Netherlands Air Force on 10 June 2016. He started his military career at the Royal Military Academy in 1981. After studying Aircraft Engineering, he attended pilot training at the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) in the United States in 1985, receiving his wings in December of the same year. In 1986, he received conversion training for the NF-5 at Twente Air Base, followed by conversion training for the F-16 two years later. After this conversion, he was appointed to several positions in operational F-16 units and flew the F-18 as an exchange with the RCAF.

In 2007, following a tour as Military Assistant (MA) to the DCOM Air at ISAF HQ in Afghanistan, he was assigned, in October, to the Integral Plans Branch of the Defence Staff in the rank of Colonel, initially as Head of Project Planning and later Head of Planning Integration. In April 2010, became the Commanding Officer of the Leeuwarden Air Base. On 24 August 2012, was appointed Director of Operations of the Royal Netherlands Air Force, and concurrently promoted to the rank of Air Commodore. Following this appointment, in June 2014, he was promoted to Major General and made Director of Operational Readiness for the Netherlands MoD.