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Other conscripts with less complicated job assignments are phased in, with those in the shortest term of service (Category "G") entering late. In principle, those with the longest training start earlier, so that the various ranks all come together later in the "training year" as a company-size unit.
Reserve training consists of refresher training for conscript-trained men in the Field Army between the ages of 19 and 33; Local Defense Forces reserves, composed of conscript-trained men from 33 through 46; and the Home Guard. Field Army refresher training consists of an 48-day period every 4 years. Training for Local Defense Forces personnel consists of one 30-day period during their liability to service. Home Guard training, which consists of a compulsory minimum of 20 hours and a maximum of 50 hours annually, includes infantry basic, individual, and small-unit training.
Schools operated by the army, and their locations, are as follows:
- Royal Military Academy -- Stockholm
- Infantry Officer Candidate School -- Halmstad
- Cavalry Officer Candidate School -- Umea
- Armored Troops Officer Candidate School -- Enkoping
- Artillery Officer Candidate School -- Jonkoping
- Air Defense Artillery Officer Candidate School -- Goteborg
- Engineer Officer Candidate School -- Solna
- Signal Officer Candidate School -- Uppsala
- Service Troops Officer Candidate School -- Linkoping
- Artillery and Engineer Officers School -- Stockholm
- Infantry Combat School -- Borensberg and Kvarn
- Armored Troops School -- Skovde
- Artillery Gunnery School -- Solna
- Air Defense Gunnery School -- Solna and Vaddo
- Ordnance School -- Sundbyberg
- Army NCO School -- Uppsala
- Home Guard Combat School -- Vallinge and Salem
- Defense Protection (CBN) School -- Kungsangen
- Army Ranger (Jagar) School -- Kiruna
- Army Para-Ranger School -- Karlsborg
- Artillery Flight School -- Nykoping
- Helicopter School -- Boden
- Army Radar and Air Defense Mechanical School -- Goteborg
- Army Signal School -- Uppsala
- Army Maintenance School -- Skovde
- Army Combat Engineer School -- Solna
- Army Motorized School -- Strangnas
- Army Pioneer School -- Sundbyberg
- Army Physical Education School -- Solna
4. Logistics (S)
The Army Materiel Department, which is part of the Defense Materiel Administration, has principal responsibility for procurement of all army materiel other than common-use supplies. The Chief of the Materiel Department reports directly to the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, although its activities are closely coordinated with the army.
Requirements estimates of ordnance materiel are prepared annually by the field units in the six regional joint military commands and are submitted to the Army Materiel Department's Procurement Division. On the basis of the estimates, a request for necessary funds is initiated, and, when approved, orders for materiel are placed with the appropriate installation. Before acceptance of major items, such as artillery pieces, the materiel is inspected by an ordnance officer attached to the receiving depot. Materiel which cannot be delivered by the manufacturer directly to the receiving depot is inspected at the plant. Detailed records of inspection are kept for all materiel.
Spare parts are procured by the Army Materiel Department and are stocked in its own depots and in those of the regional joint military commands for issue. Only standard spare parts that are not specifically military items are normally purchased from the civilian market.
Each of the peacetime training units has an ordnance section that performs repair and main-
FIGURE 11. Army unit practicing crossing a stream. The troops in the left foreground are armed with Swedish 9-mm submachineguns. (U/OU)
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