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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.

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.

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.

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...

4.11.2018 | Undertaking training in the Finnish Rapid Deployment Force, the jaeger company demonstrates versatile capability to conduct versatile missions also independently. Yet, while winter conditions prevail, sustaining combat capability presupposes that both each individual soldier and the unit as a whole remain equally committed.

27.11.2018 | The National Parade on the Finnish Independence Day will contribute to changes affecting traffic control, parking and public transportation in Mikkeli from 5 to 6 December 2018. During the parade events, those looking to attend are requested to move on foot or by public transportation in the area of the town centre.

24.3.2019 | In this exercise, Finnish liaison officers operate in the Swedish brigade headquarters as substance-matter experts of their given functional branch collecting and submitting information between the Finnish and Swedish troops. The primary mission of the liaison officers is to support the decision-making of the Commander of the brigade as well as assist the brigade headquarters in planning a range of operations.

21.11.2016 | Finland celebrates its Independence Day on 6 December and this year's National Independence Day Parade will be held in Kajaani.

19.12.2018 | A total of circa 6,400 conscripts will be mustering out from the Finnish Army on Thursday 20 December 2018. Among those mustering out will also be Conscript Chaplain, Officer Candidate Penja Korkkonen. While carrying out the set service tasks, Officer Candidate Korkkonen has been able to utilise the competence accrued in civilian life in a variety of ways. On top of this, he has gained plenty of experience relevant in light of his future profession.

20.6.2019 | Officer Candidate Markus Lautala’s conscript service is coming to an end soon. He has served in Hamina for 347 days. Lautala hoped to meet challenging tasks while in the Army and managed to apply for those challenging tasks. Today, he musters out from service, solid trust in the skills and abilities that he leaned during his conscript service. He is aiming for a military career.

30.11.2019 | Generating trust between nations by means of openness in military cooperation and observation visits. In conjunction with the exercise Kaakko 19, Finland invited for an observation visit observers from 13 of the participating states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, OSCE, of which 11 accepted the invitation.

9.2.2017 | The Finnish Defence Forces' Sports School trains reconnaissance sections for exceptional circumstances. Most athletes complete leadership training, serving for 347 days.

2.4.2019 | In present-day working environments that may occasionally be hectic and quick-tempoed, the ability to cope with work becomes increasingly important. As part of individuals’ well-being, the notion of performance capability remains vital.

27.11.2019 | The National Parade on the Finnish Independence Day will contribute to changes affecting traffic control, parking and public transportation in Tampere from 5 to 6 December 2019. The majority of the equipment will arrive in Tampere on 5 December, whereas on 6 December the return transfers back to home garrisons may cause traffic congestion in Tampere and its vicinity.

27.5.2020 | Finnish Defence Forces Recruit Questionnaire (preliminary questionnaire for military service) You fill in this preliminary questionnaire after the call-up, before you enter military service. Filling in this questionnaire will give you an opportuni...

21.11.2022 | The national parade on the Independence Day will contribute to changes affecting traffic and parking in Hamina on 6 December 2022. To avoid traffic congestion, the public is asked to move on foot in the downtown area for the duration of the parade events.