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33-700: The Swedish Army Armoured Center was established on 1 July 1991. This was done as a direct result of the Army Staff 's reorganization when the branch divisions were relocated from Stockholm , to be part of the respective branch school. The traditions and thus tasks and organization at the Swedish Army Armoured Center thus built on the Army Staff's Armored Department – the Armored Inspectorate ( Pansarinspektionen ) – and

66-704: A large exhibition of signal equipment at the Swedish Army Museum . Today's signal troops mainly include staff and military communications units, and electronic warfare units. The Command and Control Regiment in Enköping has since 2007 taken over the previous tasks of the signal troops. The chief of the signal troops was referred to as the Inspector of the Swedish Army Signal Troops ( Signalinspektören ). From 1966 to 1991,

99-715: A new management and new organizational units in new locations. This to provide better conditions for a robust and sustainable management. The new organizational units that the Swedish Armed Forces wished to form were proposed to be called the Army Staff, the Air Staff and Naval Staff . These would be formed by a merger of the Training & Procurement Staff and the Joint Forces Command , as well as other complementary parts from, among other things,

132-832: A signal corps, and in 1962 it became the Göta Signal Corps (S 2). The Signal School moved to Uppsala in 1957 and in 1965 became the Swedish Army School of Staff Work and Communications ( Arméns stabs- och sambandsskola , StabSbS) (1965–1998), which in turn was part of the Swedish Army Staff and Communication Center ( Arméns lednings- och sambandscentrum , LSC) (1991–1997) along with the Army Staff 's Signal Department ( Arméstabens signalavdelning ) and ( Signaltruppernas officershögskola , SignOHS). The Swedish Army Signal Cadet and Officer Candidate School ( Signaltruppernas kadett- och aspirantskola , SignKAS)

165-693: Is the staff of the Chief of the Swedish Army . It was originally established in 1937. The Army Staff's duties then included, among other things to assist the Chief of the Army with leadership of the Army's mobilization, training, tactics, organization, equipment and personnel to the extent that such activity was not directly related to operational activities, which was handled by the Defence Staff . In 1994

198-716: The Defence Act of 1936 as a special branch of the field telegraph troops which belonged to the Fortifikationen ("Royal Engineers"). A large number of officers from the Signal Troops were assigned for duty at higher staff positions. The Swedish Army Signal Troops have their origins in the field signal company, which was established in 1871 by recruited personnel, consisting of 4 officers, 4 non-commissioned officers, and 120 men, including corporals, musicians, craftsmen, and soldiers, along with 10 horses. However,

231-690: The Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters took over the Army Staff's duties. In 2019, the Army Staff was re-established, now located in Enköping Garrison. On 1 July 1937, the position of Chief of the Army ( Chefen för armén ) was established. The Chief of the Army would under the King in Council exercise the highest military leadership of the country defence. At his side, the Chief of the Army had an Army Staff to assist

264-713: The Swedish Army Signal School (1942–1965) was established, and S 1 received an additional company in Stockholm, one in Skövde (S 1 Sk), and one in Kristianstad (S 1 K). In 1954, S 1 B became a battalion, and in 1957, S 1 moved to Uppsala in the so-called Mälardal Carousel  [ sv ] . In 1958, the company in Skövde was expanded into a battalion, in 1961 it moved to Karlsborg and became

297-636: The Swedish Army Signal Troops and in the respect of the technical signal within the army in general, this was exercised by the staff of the Army Staff and the Chief of the Signal Troops . The instruction for the Chief of the Army ( SFS 1937/669) was replaced in 1942 by the King in Council's instructions for the Army Command ( Arméledningen ). The term Army Command was used as the official term from 1942 to 1948, and partly later, for

330-738: The Army Command ( Arméledningen , AL) from 1994 to 1997. Blazon : "Azure, the lesser coat of arms of Sweden , three open crowns or placed two and one. The shield surmounted two swords in saltire or". Swedish Army Signal Troops Swedish Army Signal Troops ( Swedish : Signaltrupperna , S) is the signal branch of the Swedish Army . It is responsible for installing, maintaining and operating all types of telecommunications equipment and information systems, providing command support to commanders and their headquarters, and conducting electronic warfare against enemy communications. The Swedish Army Signal Troops were organized in accordance with

363-493: The Army Staff had about 380 employees. The Army Staff was in connection with the Swedish Armed Forces restructuring on 1 July 1994 amalgamated into the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters as the Army Command ( Arméledningen ). In February 2018, the Swedish Armed Forces proposed in its budget for 2019 to the Government a reorganization of the Swedish Armed Forces' leadership. The proposal was, among other things, designed with

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396-480: The Army Staff was conducted in an Organization Department, Equipment Department and a Personnel Department. There was also an office and a library as well as the Army Staff's stable (SFS 1942/863). Within the Army Inspection was now the military branch departments. New instructions for the Army Command came in 1949 (SFS 1949/600). The Army Inspectorate ceased and the military branch inspectors with departments

429-616: The Army Staff will temporarily be located together with the Ledningsstridsskolan (LedSS) in the School House in Enköping Garrison. Where within the garrison the staff will finally be located is not yet established (January 2019) but a development group appointed by the garrison commander is tasked with investigating the issue and presenting proposals. The coat of arms of the Army Staff. It was later used by

462-408: The Chief of the Army in his duties. Within the Army Staff the work was initially conducted in the following departments: Office with Cash Management, Organization Department, Education Department and Personnel Department. The inspection activities in the army were carried out by independent inspectorates, military branch inspectors and service branch inspectors. Regarding the inspection activities for

495-662: The Chief of the Army with the Army Staff. The Army Command consisted of the Chief of the Army and the Army Staff, the Recruiting and Replacement Office ( Centrala värnpliktsbyrån ), the Army Inspection, the Chief of Home Guard along with the Home Guard Staff, the service branch inspectors, the Chief of the Army directly subordinate to administrative corps chiefs and the Royal Swedish Army Materiel Administration . Work within

528-452: The Government decided to set up the Army Staff as a separate organizational unit and place it to Enköping Garrison. On 16 January 2019, the Army Staff were inaugurated with a traditional ceremony in Enköping Garrison. In addition to the personnel from the Army Staff, the municipal council chairman of Enköping, Ingvar Smedlund, Chief of Army , major general Karl Engelbrektsson , Deputy Chief of Army , brigadier general Fredrik Ståhlberg and

561-697: The Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters and the Defence Materiel Administration . The staffs were proposed to be formed on 1 January 2019 and commanded by an army chief, a naval chief and an air force chief. On 22 November 2018, the Government proposed to the Riksdag to set up organizational units in the form of an Army Staff, a Naval Staff and an Air Staff. The Riksdag authorized the Government to do so by adopting its bill on 18 December 2018. On 20 December,

594-789: The Swedish Armoured Troops Combat School ( Pansartruppernas stridsskola , PS) with its closest predecessors the Swedish Armoured Troops School and the Swedish Armoured Troops Cadet and Officer Candidate School . The Swedish Army Armoured Center was located at Klagstorp manor and the Swedish Armoured Troops Combat School, which was organized in the Swedish Army Armoured Center, moved to the same location as Skaraborg Regiment (P 4). The Swedish Army Armoured Center operated in two places; in Skövde in adjacent to

627-548: The Swedish Armoured Troops Combat School ( Pansartruppernas stridsskola , PS). The unit march was taken over in 1995 by the Combat School South ( Stridsskola Syd , SSS). From 1999, it is used as a unit march by the Land Warfare Centre . The Land Warfare Centre continues the traditions of the Swedish Army Armoured Center. Army Staff (Sweden) Army Staff ( Swedish : Arméstaben , Ast)

660-497: The Swedish Army Brigade Center ( Arméns brigadcentrum , BrigC). The reason for the merger was an increased mechanization of the infantry, which began to blur the boundaries that existed between the armoured units and the infantry units. Blazon : "Sable, an arm embowed and vambraced, in the hand a sword, all or". When the center was formed on 1 July 1991, the unit march, "Pansarkamrater", was taken over from

693-439: The activities related to the army's peace and war organization, equipment and studies. Section 2 was responsible for matters concerning the army's tactics, training and intelligence. Section 3 was responsible for the army personnel and press service. The military branch inspectors lead among other things, tests and some training. The military branch departments was the staff bodies of the military branch inspectors. In March 1976,

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726-592: The commander of the Command and Control Regiment , colonel Mattias Hanson, attended. The staff was inaugurated almost on the day 21 years after the Army Tactical Center (ATAC) was inaugurated in Enköping on 7 January 1998. The main part of the Army Staff was located in the building Generalitetshuset at Östermalmsgatan 87 and at seven other places in the Stockholm area. Some parts of the Army Staff

759-458: The company belonged to the fortification troops ( fortifikationstrupperna ). In 1872, the company took part in a military exercise in Uppland under the command of Oscar II and received much praise for constructing a "whole" 5 km single-wire line for telegraphy . The first telephone was introduced in 1880, a Bell telephone with a ground stand. In 1887, something resembling a field telephone

792-656: The establishment around Heden, operated the Course Sections 1, 2 and 3 and the Trial Troop ( Försöktruppen ); at Klagstorp old manor there the LT section, the development sections and the Armored Staff ( Pansarstaben ) operated. There were four training sections with different goals ranging from basic officer training to training of brigade and battalion staffs. Two sections worked on development, one of materiel ,

825-518: The other of tactics and combat technology. Service to the school was provided by two trial companies with conscripts and materiel. The Armored Inspector, the head of the Swedish Armoured Troops Combat School and the chief of staff were based at Klagstorp. On 1 July 1995, the Swedish Army Armoured Center in Skövde and the Swedish Army's Infantry and Cavalry Center ( Arméns infanteri- och kavallericentrum , InfKavC) in Kvarn merged into one organizational unit,

858-583: The regiment was disbanded, the pigeons moved to Lilla Frösunda. They were not properly organized until 1935 when the Swedish Army Pigeon Service ( Arméns brevduveväsende ) was established. It remained until 1948. With the Defence Act of 1936 , the Swedish Army Signal Troops were established. The Signal Regiment (S 1) was organized in Stockholm and received a company, S 1 B, in Boden . From 1940 to 1942, it moved to Lilla Frösunda. In 1942,

891-582: The signal and engineer troops had a joint branch inspector; the Inspector of the Swedish Army Engineer Corps and Signal Corps ( Ingenjörinspektör- och Signalinspektören ). From 1991, the two branches received an inspector each, and the title of the signal troops was shortened to the Signal Inspector. In connection with the decommissioning of Swedish Army Staff and Communication Center ( Arméns lednings- och sambandscentrum ),

924-535: Was active from 1961 to 1981 when it became a part of the Swedish Army School of Staff Work and Communications. On 4 September 1971, the 100th anniversary of the Signal Troops was celebrated with Colonel Åke Bernström and Major General Gottfrid Hain laying a wreath at the memorial stone (the Marieberg Stone  [ sv ] ) in Marieberg , Stockholm. The jubilee was celebrated, among other things, with

957-544: Was from 1943 to 1981 located in the building Tre Vapen at Banérgatan 62-64 in Stockholm . In 1981 it moved to the building Bastionen at Lidingövägen 24 in Stockholm. The location of the new Army Staff was proposed by the Swedish Armed Forces to be established in Enköping garrison next to the Command and Control Regiment . As an alternative, there was also a location in Kungsängen Garrison. Initially,

990-560: Was introduced, along with the first cryptographic device for encryption . In 1892, the company was renamed the Field Telegraph Company, and through the 1901 army order, the Field Telegraph Corps was organized. In 1908, it moved to Marieberg , Stockholm, but already two years earlier, experiments began not only with spark-gap transmitter but also with military ballooning and aviation equipment: here

1023-704: Was now incorporated into the Army Staff. The Army Staff was divided into two sections, Section 1 included the Organizational Department, Equipment Department and a Section Office and Section II included the Tactics Department, Education Department, the library and the Section Office. The Personnel Department was outside the sections. In the Personnel Department there was a Press and Adjutant Department. Additionally

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1056-494: Was the embryo of the Swedish Air Force . In 1914, an initially quite improvised aviation company emerged, and the following year, field telephones were introduced. Radio and balloon companies were relocated to Lilla Frösunda  [ sv ] , and the aviation company to Malmslätt . At this time, a new signaling method also appeared - the war pigeon . A pigeon loft existed at the old Göta Life Guards . When

1089-472: Was the military branch departments. In 1959, the Section III was added, which included Personnel Department, Press Department and a Section Office. In June 1964, the Army Staff's new organization was established (TLA 1964:32). The staff was according to the instruction organized in three sections, six military branch inspectors with eight military branch departments and a head's office. Section I handled

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