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which, in the case of infantry, at present lasts for 48 days, for
special arms, 60—90 days. After drill come the battalion exercises,
lasting 24 days. These exercises are then continued for the two
— for special arms, three — following years in the line, 24 days
every year, and lastly in the 7th year — the first in the
landvern — for 24 days. The total time of training is thus nearly
5 months for infantry, distributed over 4 years (from the conscripts
23th to their 29th), nearly 7 months for cavalry and field-artillery,
and nearly 6 months for engineers, distributed over 5 years. This
is, of course, considerably less than the 2 to 4 years’ uninterrupted
service of the standing armies; but, in comparing the two cases,
consideration must be taken on the one hand to the good
soldier-material, tall, well-developed men with a good education, and, on
the other, to the fact that the exercises during the short
repetitions can be carried on with greater vigour, and be more easily
given a campaign character than can generally be done in garrison
towns. Larger field-duty exercises, in which about ¼ of the line
and landvern corps take part at a time, will be held, as a rule,
every other year, lasting for one week.
Of enlisted troops in addition to the garrisons in the fortresses,
there is only H. M. Norwegian Guard, 2 companies, garrisoning
Kristiania, but they are all, properly speaking, training corps for
non-commissioned officers.
The non-commissioned officers are either regularly appointed, or
serve as «vernepligtige» (conscripted). They have all enlisted for
the purpose of going through a complete non-commissioned officer’s
training, with a theoretical and practical course, lasting 3 years
for infantry and cavalry. 4 years for artillery and engineers. Only
a small proportion of the pupils examined receive permanent
appointments, and those as sergeants. Most of them become
«conscripted non-commissioned officers», serving during the yearly
exercises together with the privates in their own age-classes, in the
line and landvern regularly as corporals, in the landstorm in
higher grades as well.
The abundant supply of volunteers to these long, strict courses,
which renders this arrangement with conscripted non-commissioned
officers possible, may appear remarkable, especially in a land with
such short compulsory service. The explanation is to be found
chiefly in the fact that these sub-officers’ schools are regarded as
a sound training for young men in practical life as well, as a «part
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