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Active
  
2001-: Maasotakoulu

Branch
  
Finnish Army

Country
  
Finland

Type
  
Military school

Army Academy (Finland)

Role
  
Career, reservist and conscript training

Size
  
ca. 600 career personnel ca. 430 "ordinary" conscriptsca. 110 3rd year cadets of the land warfare lineca. 700 officer students during reserve officer courses

Army Academy (Finnish: Maasotakoulu, abbr. MAASK) is a brigade-level unit of the Finnish Army responsible for:

  • organising the service-specific and branch-specific parts of studies of Army cadets in Finnish National Defence University
  • organising the reserve officer training of the Army in the Reserve Officer School
  • guiding the career NCO training of the Army
  • organising other training for Army career personnel
  • pursuing research and development activities.

    • Organisation

    The Headquarters of the Army Academy are in Lappeenranta. Otherwise, the Army Academy is formed of the following units:

  • Training Center
  • Armour School (Finnish: Panssarikoulu), Parola
  • Artillery School (Finnish: Tykistökoulu), Niinisalo
  • Engineer School (Finnish: Pioneerikoulu), Lappeenranta
  • Infantry School (Finnish: Jalkaväkikoulu), Lappeenranta
  • Signals School (Finnish: Viestikoulu), Riihimäki
  • Reserve Officer School, Hamina
  • Dragoon Band, Lappeenranta
  • Army Research Center
  • Hamina, most of activity
  • Niinisalo, artillery sector
  • Riihimäki, signals sector
  • Parola, armoured troops sector
  • Logistics Centre (Finnish: Huoltokeskus), Hamina and Lappeenranta)

    • The Training Centre specialises in the training of the Army career personnel. The Reserve Officer School gives, in addition to the eponymous reserve officer training for conscripts and reservists, normal conscript training for infantry, transport and military police conscripts in three companies, two of which are located in Hamina, with the third in Lappeenranta. The company in Lappeenranta, the Dragoon Troop (Finnish: Rakuunaeskadroona) which specialises in military police training, is also, after the disbanding of Häme Regiment, the last unit bearing the branch colours of cavalry in Finland.

    References

    Army Academy (Finland) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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