The aim of the youth departments' activities was, in collaboration with home, school and employers, to raise Swedish boys and young people to be good citizens with the ability to participate in the defence of the motherland and to assist in the schools' military service training.

On 1 June 1943, the King in Council determined basic statutes for the Swedish Central Federation for Voluntary Military Training (Swedish: Centralförbundet för befälsutbildning, CFB), whose main task was to conduct voluntary officer training.

[1] In January 2006, the organization changed its name to the Swedish Federation for Voluntary Defence Education and Training (Svenska Försvarsutbildningsförbundet, FBU) to mark that the organization should keep pace with the changes that have taken place in Sweden's defence and security policy and the development of the Swedish Armed Forces.

The organization now turned to everyone who was interested in supporting society's civilian crisis management.

The activities of the organization now included the entire scale from the security of the individual to the defence of society.