* M04 Camouflage pattern used by Finnish Defence Forces

# REDIRECT Finnish Defence Forces

The swallow-tailed national flag, which is also the naval ensign, is flown by the Finnish Defence Forces.

The presidential standard and the command signs of the Minister of Defence, Chief of Defence, and Commander of the Finnish Navy are flown only by the respective persons.

Also all persons who were transferred between years 1943 – 1943 to Finland from areas occupied by Germany and were subsequently returned to Soviet Union or who served in the Finnish Defence Forces during the Second World War qualify.

Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim () ( 4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951 ) was the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War, Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defence Forces during World War II, Marshal of Finland, and a Finnish statesman.

In 1990, after the reunification of Germany, Koivisto unilaterally renounced the terms of Paris peace treaty which limited the strength and armament of the Finnish Defence Forces.

◦ Maintenance of army material for the Finnish Defence Forces.

In the Finnish Defence Forces, a squad is formed by three fire and maneuver teams ( taistelupari, literally " combat pair ") and a squad leader.

In the Finnish Defence Force, NCO's ( Aliupseeristo ) includes all ranks from Corporal ( Alikersantti, lit.

In Finland, the Elämän Sana (" the Word of life ") group, as the most " mainline " of the different branches of Laestadianism, has been prominent within the hierarchy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland: Two members have been elected bishops of Oulu, and one has served as Chaplain General ( head chaplain of the Finnish Defence Forces and the equivalent of a Major General ).

Press reports have noted that some Finnish Defence Forces conscripts were not mature enough to meet the demands of military life, and were required to interrupt or postpone military service for a year.

The President is the Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Defence Forces.

The Cross could be awarded to any soldier of the Finnish Defence Forces, regardless of rank.

The Finnish Defence Forces regional offices are responsible for the regional defence preparations and for the administration of conscription within the region.

Some major uses of Frutiger are in the corporate identity of Raytheon, the National Health Service in England, Telefónica O2, the British Royal Navy, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Conservative Party of Canada, the Banco Bradesco in Brazil, the Finnish Defence Forces and on road signs in Switzerland.

The Finnish Defence Forces uses Frutiger as its official typeface

The Military bands are a part of the Finnish Defence Forces.

the Finnish Defence Forces.

Lappeenranta has numerous schools at almost all levels of education, including the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, the Army Academy ( branch of the Finnish Defence Forces ), South Karelia Vocational College and South Karelia Adult Education Centre.

In practice, the everyday command and control is in the hands of Chief of Defence and the Commander of the Finnish Border Guard.

The economic administration of the Finnish Defence Force is the responsibility of Ministry of Defence.

Pea soup with pancakes is, with few exceptions, served ( either for lunch or dinner ) every Thursday in the Swedish Armed Forces and the Finnish Defense Forces – a tradition dating back to World War II.

He is known as the soldier who fought under three flags: Finnish, German ( when he fought the Soviets in World War II ) and American ( where he was known as Larry Thorne ) when he served in U. S. Army Special Forces in the Vietnam War.

After the war the Finnish Defence Forces and a regular police service were founded.

The Finnish Army ( Finnish: Maavoimat, Swedish: Armén ) is the land forces branch of the Finnish Defence Forces.

In June 2005, the Tallahassee Democrat reported that when given access to Diebold optical scan vote-counting computers, Black Box Voting, a nonprofit election watchdog group founded by Bev Harris, hired Finnish computer expert Harri Hursti and conducted a project in which vote totals were altered, by replacing the memory card that stores voting results with one that had been tampered with.

While in 1950 1439 people reported that they used the Finnish language in Troms ( 58 people ) and Finnmark ( 1381 people ).

On 11 December, 2007, Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE reported, that in Uppsala, Sweden, speaking Finnish was forbidden from city employees, and that this was the case also with small talk during breaks.

After the war, the Communist Party of Finland was legalized, and Soviet world views and perceptions were often courteously reported in Finnish newspapers without too obvious debunking, even under nominally Conservative governments.

The date of his death has been variously reported as October 1, 1996 ( New Grove Dictionary, and various internet sources ); October 2, 1996 ( many internet sources, including the Finnish Music Center ); and October 20, 1996 ( New Grove Dictionary of Opera ).

A poll conducted by Christian newspaper Kotimaa reported in March 2010 that a narrow majority of Finnish MPs opposed same-sex marriage.

At the end of June 2007 it was reported that Säteilyturvakeskus, the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, had found a number of safety-related design and manufacturing ' deficiencies '.

In August 2007 a further construction delay of up to a year was reported associated with construction problems in reinforcing the reactor building to withstand an airplane crash, and the timely supply of adequate documentation to the Finnish authorities.

Particularly in Finland, the issue emerges in frequent exposés of Finnish history, and in motives for governmental proposals and actions as reported in Finnish news broadcasts in English or other foreign languages.

He is reported as having said " Kaikki eläimet ovat tankeroita " ( Finnish for " All animals are tankeros "), after misunderstanding a sign that said " All animals are dangerous.

About 100 patients have been reported, almost half of them of Finnish origin.

At the opening ceremony, 36 or as reported by the Chefs de Mission on the preceding evening, 41 athletes from the Saarland marched in ahead of the team of Germany, which is called " Saksa " in the Finnish language.

He has measured the skinfolds ( the fleshy areas under the shoulder blades ) of Neapolitan firemen, studied the metabolism of Finnish woodcutters, analyzed the `` mealie-meal '' eaten by Capetown coloreds, and experimented on Minneapolis businessmen.

The uplift is about eight millimetres per year on the Finnish coast of the northernmost Gulf of Bothnia.

In Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish, besides the ordinal naming of centuries another system is often used based on the hundreds part of the year, and consequently centuries start at even multiples of 100.

Finnish dog tags are also designed to be broken in two ; however, the only text on it is the personal identification number and the letters SF, which stands for Suomi Finland, within a tower stamped atop of the upper half.

From Haparanda on the Finnish border, it stretches south along the Gulf of Bothnia to Gävle, then on a more inland route southwards.

* The Finnish capital, Helsinki, is the northernmost capital city on the mainland of the European continent, and ranks as third globally.

Once these laws were passed, Finnish authorities signed the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, in 1986.

After independence from Russia in 1917, the Finnish Civil War, including interventions by Imperial Germany and Soviet Russia, and failure of the Communist revolution, resulted in the official ban on Communism, and strengthening relations with Western countries.

In Finnish, the month is called helmikuu, meaning " month of the pearl "; when snow melts on tree branches, it forms droplets, and as these freeze again, they are like pearls of ice.

The bill also furthered Finnish independence by restricting Russia's influence on domestic Finnish affairs: the Provisional Government of Russia would determine only the foreign and military policies of Finland.

The events of July 1917 did not bring about the Red Revolution in January 1918 on their own, but together with political development based on the labour movement's interpretation of the ideas of fennomania and socialism since the 1880's, these events were decisive for the nature, content, and goals of a Finnish revolution.

The non-socialist majority in the new Finnish Parliament took power on 15 November, on the model of the Power Act of the socialists in July 1917, and promptly accepted the Social Democratic proposals from July 1917 for an eight-hour working day and universal suffrage in local elections.

The first Finnish Jägers had arrived in Finland on 31 October on a ship called Equity, carrying a large shipment of weapons from the German army.

Following the October Revolution, Finnish socialists planned to ask the Bolsheviks for acceptance of Finland's sovereignty in a manifesto on 10 November, but the uncertain situation in Petrograd stalled it.

The presence of the two opposing armed forces in Finland, the Red and the White Guards, imposed a state of " dual power " and " multiple sovereignty " on Finnish society, typically the prelude to civil war.

Both political groups, therefore, agreed on the need for Finnish sovereignty, despite strong disagreement on the selection of its leadership.

On 15 January, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, like Aaltonen a former officer in the Russian army, was appointed supreme commander of the White Guards, and on 25 January the Senate renamed the White Guards the Finnish White Army.

In order to gain weaponry, some of the Red Guards located along the Viipuri-Tampere railway had been alerted beforehand, on 23 – 26 January, to safeguard Russian trains carrying a heavy shipment of weapons to the Finnish Reds, as agreed between Ali Aaltonen and V. I.