Post; The Finnish Military

CoastalJaeger · June 18th, 2005

I just skimmed trough the Australian military topic and I thought it would be intresting for myself to find out what people think/know of the Finnish military

It is ofcourse a small miltary because there are only 5 million people in the country but 82% of the males do their military service so that is of course a pretty high number.

But althought the budget is small, I belive the miltary is very effective, the Finnish Marines/Coastal Jaegers always arrange in the summer an field exercise against Swedish Marines, and the Finns usually win, but then again men with long hair get hair nets in the Swedish military...

The Finnish peace keeping forces, I have heard also have got a pretty good international reputation...

So if anybody has anything to comment about our military, please do..

June 18th, 2005
CoastalJaeger Milites Gregarius	Post; The Finnish Military I just skimmed trough the Australian military topic and I thought it would be intresting for myself to find out what people think/know of the Finnish military It is ofcourse a small miltary because there are only 5 million people in the country but 82% of the males do their military service so that is of course a pretty high number. But althought the budget is small, I belive the miltary is very effective, the Finnish Marines/Coastal Jaegers always arrange in the summer an field exercise against Swedish Marines, and the Finns usually win, but then again men with long hair get hair nets in the Swedish military... The Finnish peace keeping forces, I have heard also have got a pretty good international reputation... So if anybody has anything to comment about our military, please do..