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FIGURE 15. The Swedish icebreaker Tor (U/OU) (picture)
Recruits receive thorough training in basic seamanship, often followed by some technical training prior to sea duty. Career enlisted personnel can receive considerable advanced technical training as petty officers. After 3 years of service, well-qualified men are eligible to become warrant officer candidates. Basic conscript training is more limited because it is intended only to produce individuals capable of filling specific wartime billets afloat or ashore.
Fleet training is conducted by the Commander, Coastal Fleet. The winter is spent in team training, utilizing facilities afloat and ashore, and elementary single ship exercises. In the spring, the Coastal Fleet begins more advanced single ship exercises, builds up to multi-ship exercises, and concludes its training cycle with the annual fall maneuvers.
The navy has no organized reserve, but refresher training is provided for reservists. Within 6 years of completion of conscript service and prior to reaching age 47, enlisted reservists are required to complete a minimum of four periods of refresher training, each lasting for 18 days, and five mobilization training exercises, each of 1 to 2 days' duration. Retired regular personnel in the grade of petty officer and above are liable for recall for training for a 30-day period every 4 years until they reach the ages of 55 to 66 depending on rank. Reserve officers are liable for recall for three 90-day refresher training periods up to the age of 47.
The Sea Defense Corps, a quasi-naval organization, gives pre-military training on a volunteer basis for youths 15 to 18 years of age, and the Women's Naval Auxiliary Corps provides important training to reserve women personnel.
Major naval training installations and their locations are as follows:
- Training Barracks (2), Karlskrona
- Coast Artillery Gunnery and Ranger Schools, Vaxholm (near Stockholm)
- Gunnery, Radar, Signal, Submarine and ASW, Engineering, and Damage Control Schools, Berga
- Naval Flying Schools (helicopters), Berga and Save (near Goteborg)
- Naval Technical School and Petty Officers School (specialist training for chiefs and petty officers), Karlskrona
- Naval Supply, Diving, and Mine Warfare Schools, Karlskrona
- Naval Medical School, Alvsborg
- Women's Naval Auxiliary Corps School (summer only), Berga
- Warrant Officers School, Berga
- Royal Swedish Naval Academy, Nasbypark (near Stockholm)
- Officers Weapons School, Berga
- Coast Artillery Officer and Noncommissioned Officer Schools, Alvsborg
4. Logistics (S)
The Navy's Materiel Department is an integral part of the Defense Materiel Administration. The centralized Defense Medical Board (subordinate to the Surgeon General and Chief of the Medical Corps) controls medical logistical support to the services through its Medical Bureau. Construction of shore facilities is the responsibility of the Fortification Administration.
The principal operating bases and shore establishments are at Berga, Karlskrona, Goteborg, and the underground base at Musko island. The naval bases have large stocks of wartime supplies, some of which are dispersed at numerous underground supply points throughout the archipelago areas of Stockholm.
Although most naval materiel is manufactured in Sweden, some components and electronic equipment are imported. Guns and ammunition are purchased principally from AB Bofors in Sweden. Electronic equipment is obtained from various domestic sources, including the Philips and L.M. Erickson companies, as well as French and British companies. Helicopter radars and dipping sonars are purchased from the United States.
Sweden ranks foremost among the smaller maritime nations capable of designing and constructing its own naval ships. With the exception of 11 motor torpedo boats built in West Germany during the late 1950s and the new experimental Norwegian gunboat, all of
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