Army Career:
(In Norway, untill recently, almost everybody, (of the men), had to serve for one year, in the Army, in the way the Government wanted).
July 1992 – June 1993, Geværmann 1, (Rifle-soldier 1), Geværkompaniet, (Rifle-company), Terningmoen, Elverum, Norway.
Norwegian Army, Infantry, Oppland Regiment, Conscription Service.
(This was one of the best Norwegian army-units. ‘All’ the best officers wanted to stay near the capital, Oslo, (and not in the north), so we often got the officers with the best grades from the Army-academy. This unit has been in war, with both the Germans and the Swedes, and used to have a Viking skiier, a ‘Birkebeiner’, on the crest. I got a medal for finishing my conscription-service, and a lot of competition-
badges: sharp-shooting badge in silver and bronce, skiing-badge, infantry-badge and army sports-badge. I really wanted a career in computing, so while I was at Terningmoen, I applied for an army computing-job, which I got, (a three month job, as an assistant, on a computer-course, with the work-task of instructing high-ranking officers, on a computer-course. I lost this job, after one day, without any explanation, so I ended up working for twelve years in the food-shop business, after the Army, since I lacked work-experience from computing, and there was a recession, in Norway, in the early 1990’s).
June 1993 – February 1996, Norwegian Mobilization-Army, Oslo/Jørstadmoen.
After the Army, I was transfered to the Mobilization-army, and was on one rehersal here, that lasted for about two weeks, so I had to take time of work. This was on ‘Øvelse Elg’, that’s Rehersal Moose or Elk, in Kongsvinger. (During my conscripton-service, we were on a lot of rehersals, so I was also on Øvelse Elg, in 1992, as an infantry-soldier, in ‘Geværkompaniet’, (Rifle-company), Terningmoen, Oppland Regiment).
February 1996 – Recently, or when I left Norway in 2005, Home-defence, HV02, Oslo.
‘Støtte-område 2018’, that’s Support-Area 2018, the ones who helps the other Areas who are attacked by the enemy. After the cold war had ended, the Mobilization-army in Norway, was partly or mostly disintegrated. Whole Mobilisation-Units where dropped, including
my unit. The best of the soldiers from these units, where hand-picked to this elite Home-Defence unit, HV-2018, that I was transfered to. So if the Home-defence, hadn’t thought I was going to be a good Home Defence-soldier, then my army career would have ended, after my Mob-Army unit had been disolved, but since I was one of the few hundred who was hand-picked, to this special elite Home Defence-unit, then I got to have a machine-gun, (Hekler and Kock AK3), at home, and also other Home-defence equipment. We were trained for one week, every or every other year. Since I was called in, at the first meeting of this unit, I could have chosen to try to be an officer, in this unit, but I had a quite time-consuming job, in shop-management, so I chose to not comit myself more than I had to, with the Army/Home Defence, so all these three jobs I had in the Army and Home Defence, where not volentary, but something I had to do, since the Government told me to do this. Which was ok, to a certain degree to me, but I didn’t have the time to do a lot of extra, for the Army, on top of this again. So I tried to make it fit in with work and studies etc., so I wasn’t like a fanatic army-guy, or anything like that, even if there was enough of guys like this, in this Home-defence unit, people who lived and breathed army-stuff, but I was never one of them, I was just a normal guy, who was serving my conscripiton-service in the Army and in the Home Defence. I really had a torn of ligament in the knee, (the lower ligament, I think it was, in the left knee), when I was transfered to this unit, so I think it was a bit strange that I ended up here, since I think these were supposed to contact my doctor and my employer etc., to find the people most suited, for being in the Home-defence, and in my doctors files, it should have explained about this injury, (a footballing-injury, from 1994 or 1995), so I think it was a bit strange, that I ended up in this unit, since I had this injury at the time I was transfered to this unit.