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27.9.2019 | Paratroopers’ parachute jump training requires a lot from the trainees. Apart from completing safe and secure descents, this physically and mentally demanding training phase also involves making the soldiers increasingly fit and strengthening the troops’ team spirit.

12.5.2018 | Mechanised units sport demanding training objectives. One of these involves cooperating with an international training exercise detachment. Overall, international training exercise cooperation results in significant benefits affecting competence proficiency both at the level of individual soldiers and that of the training exercise troops.

30.5.2018 | The main training exercise of the Finnish Army, Pohjoinen 18 offers thousands of conscripts combat training in Rovajärvi.

12.2.2019 | With its set vision fixed on becoming a training centre of excellence for arctic training recognised and appreciated both at home and overseas, the Jaeger Brigade has already met this objective on the basis of the national and international interest accrued.

16.12.2019 | How does training culture affect conscripts’ intrinsic motivation? With its focus on determining exactly this, the pro gradu thesis produced by Captain Vesa Lassila indicates that a type of training culture that provides support for sustaining an individual’s skills and autonomy also informs the future sustaining and development of motivation.

5.10.2018 | So far, in the conscript training context, the virtual training environment has been utilised only for a while. Initially, the training implementation drawing from computer game simulators took off somewhat naturally with no need for specific directives stating so. This is, a number of instructors realised in practice that, while engaged in instructing tactics and combat techniques, these game simulat...

25.11.2021 | The Army Combined Joint Fires Exercise 21 ACJFE21, or MVH21, was visited by altogether 20 cadets from the Swedish Artillery School. As part of the visiting cadet detachment was also Cadet Emma Tiller. The visit included familiarisation with firing positions, the command post, and the forward observation post.

16.2.2018 | Finnish volunteers of whom a Royal Prussian Jaeger Battalion 27 was formed to participate in the battles of the First World War as part of the Imperial German Army, the Jaegers returned to Finland in February 1918. During the first decades of independent Finland, Jaegers served in developing the Finnish Defence Forces. Under the Jaegers’ command, the Finnish national defence was developed to a st...