He left Abyssinia two days before the outbreak of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1935; back in Sweden, he was placed in the Swedish Air Force reserve, where he remained until 1947.

[2] He became commanding officer of Svea Logistic Corps (T 1) in 1926 and was appointed Inspector of the Swedish Army Service Troops (Tränginspektör) in 1927.

Virgin was promoted to major general and was appointed Chief of the Air Force and head of Flygstyrelsen in 1931.

[3] Virgin and captain Viking Tamm as well as four other military officers (the lieutenants Nils Bouveng, Arne Thorburn, Gustaf Heüman and Anders Nyblom[4]) entered together into the Abyssinian service to organize the country's only military school for the training of Abyssinian officers.

On the contrary, he tried to tease Rome by recurrent condescending comments about Italians' military skills and their little prospect to emerge victorious from an armed conflict with the Abyssinians.

[5] He went so far as to even captain Tamm and the Swedish consul in Addis Ababa turned to the Foreign Ministry in Stockholm and asked for a transfer of the talkative general.

He was also an expert for the reorganization of the Road and Waterway Construction Service Corps in 1924, for the drafting of war regulations for the Swedish Air Force in 1928 and chairman of the experts drafting the new field service regulations for the Swedish Army in 1929.