Finnish Rapid Deployment Force

The force is trained to participate as part of multinational peacekeeping and crisis management operations, and can be deployed at short notice.

The requirements are considered to be nearly as high as those of Army and Navy special forces, such as the Para Jägers and Combat Divers.

This obligates them to, if needed, participate in training for crisis management or peacekeeping operations during that year within a week's notice.

[5] In practice, the contract serves as an application for participating in a peacekeeping mission such as KFOR.

Still, there are key differences: The main FRDF training site is at Pori Brigade in Säkylä, Finland.

Additionally, SEO (Suojelun Erikoisosasto) a CBRN warfare specialist formation is trained at irregular intervals of FRDF conscript batches.

[6] The force trained yearly there is about the equivalent of a Coastal jaeger platoon, or 40-50 servicemen.

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