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Commander of the Finnish Defence Forces to visit Sweden

Defence Command
Publication date 5.4.2022 7.01
Press release

Commander of the Finnish Defence Forces will visit the exercise Viking 22 in Sweden on 5 April 2022.

Organised by the Swedish Armed Forces and the Swedish Defence University together with the USA, the exercise Viking 22 is a crisis management command post exercise participated by up to 2,500 personnel from more than 50 nations. 

During his visit, Commander of the Finnish Defence Forces will inspect the operating of the Finnish training audience contingent in different staffs on varying levels of the exercise composition. 
Altogether 240 Finnish personnel attend the exercise, half of whom are Finnish National Defence University’s General Staff Officer Course students. 

The delegation of the CHOD will include Lieutenant Colonel Juha Ponto.

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