Häme Regiment is a unit of the Finnish Army

Finnish Army

The Finnish Army is the land forces branch of the Finnish Defence Forces.Today's Army is divided into six branches: the infantry , field artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, engineers, signals, and materiel troops.-History of the Finnish Army:Between 1809 and 1917 Finland was an autonomous part of...

 located in Lahti

Lahti

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. The regiment's main duty is to train conscripts

Conscription

Conscription is the compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national service, most often military service. Conscription dates back to antiquity and continues in some countries to the present day under various names...

 and the personnel of the Finnish Defence Forces

Finnish Defence Forces

The Finnish Defence Forces are responsible for the defence of Finland. It is a cadre army of 15,000, of which 8,900 are professional soldiers , extended with conscripts and reservists such that the standard readiness strength is 34,700 people in uniform...

 and the Finnish Frontier Guard.

Organisation

• Häme Cavalry Battalion (Hämeen ratsujääkäripataljoona)
• Sports School (Urheilukoulu)
• Logistics School (Huoltokoulu')
• Military Music School (Sotilasmusiikkikoulu)
• Logistics Centre

History

The original predecessor of Häme Regiment was founded in 1626 by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden

Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden

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.

Mission

The Regiment is an administrative unit without significant combat capability. Technically, it is considered to be a cavalry unit, but it does not have light armored unit role of modern-day Western cavalry units. Instead, the regiment is specialized as a logistics training center which trains the bulk of the logistics personnel of Finnish Defence Forces.

The Häme Cavalry Battalion is the only unit of the Regiment accepting usual, non-volunteer conscripts

Conscription in Finland

Conscription in Finland is part of a wider, general "national defense duty" defined in the 127§ of the Constitution of Finland.Conscription can take the form of military or of civilian service. Currently, c.66% of males reaching military age do their military service, while a growing number of ...

. Twice a year, the Battalion inducts some 260 conscripts, who are subsequently trained as military drivers, logistics technicians, cooks or military policemen.

The Headquarters Troop also trains almost all medics of the Finnish Defence Forces on its three-week combat medic course. The NCO school of the unit, on the other hand, receives conscript NCO students from all units of the FDF and the Finnish Border Guard for special training as logistics NCOs. The NCO students are trained to fulfil NCO duties as medic NCOs, motor vehicle NCO, supply NCOs, weapons smith NCOs or hygienics NCOs.

Häme Cavalry Battalion

The Häme Cavalry Battalion is the main military unit of the Häme Regiment. It provides infantry training for the conscripts.

Logistics School

• weapon maintenance, students from Kainuu Artillery Regiment
  Kainuu Artillery Regiment
  Kainuu Artillery Regiment is an artillery unit of the Kainuu Brigade, which is the norhernmost one of the three readines brigades of the defence forces of Finland....
  
  , etc.
• medical service

Military Music School

The Military Music School is open to eligible volunteers. Military Music School accepts yearly some 80 applicants adept at playing a musical instrument, on the basis of national entrance exam. The service term is 9 or 12 months. Most of this time is spent in the Finnish Defence Forces Conscript Band. However, part of the conscripts receive NCO training in addition to their musical duties. In addition to conscript training, the Military Music School trains career musicians of the FDF.

Sports School

The conscript training in Sports School is open to eligible volunteers. For service in Sports School, the conscript must be at least a semi-professional sportsman of national level. The conscripts of the unit are always trained for reconnaissance duties, interfering as little as possible with the sportsman's career. The typical service term is 12 months, most conscripts receiving at least NCO training. In addition to the conscript training, the Sports School educates the career reconnaissance officers and NCOs and FDF physical education personnel.

Logistics Training Center

The Logistics Training Center is a purely professional unit, centering on training FDF and Border Guard logistics personnel. In addition to its training mission, the Center pursues research and development initiatives of the FDF logistics branch. The personnel of the Center participate actively in the specialist conscript training of the Häme Cavalry Battalion.