Results from Norway’s largest recruit school, KNM Harald Haarfagre at Madla, show that recruits’ physical fitness in the Armed Forces has deteriorated markedly over the past six years. The trend shows that fewer and fewer meet NATO’s requirement for how fast recruits should run. To have basic military physical fitness, the NATO requirement is to […]

A mistake at the enlistment office in Gothenburg has led to unmotivated people born in 2006 being called up to do compulsory military service, despite the fact that there were other approved candidates who actually wanted to serve.  This resulted in people who scored highly on the enlistment tests, but who did not want to […]

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