KINGDOM OF NORWAY

CURRENT ARMY & AIR FORCE UNIT STANDARDS

Units of the Norwegian Army—variously brigades, regiments, battalions, and companies—have standards of a standardized design: square (forked for units with a cavalry heritage), with the lion of the the Norwegian coat of arms as their principal charge. Most of these standards have a field in the primary color and a border of the secondary color associated with the unit:, e.g. black field and red border for the Telemark Battalion. With a few exceptions the lion is golden yellow. The Notwegian Military Academy and the Royal Guard have standards of a traditional pattern whose basic design dates from 1914. The units of Norway's territorial military reserve force, the Home Guard, are administered by  is organized  Its members keep their arms and ammunition in their homes; this reflects Norway's bitter experience during World War II, when Germany's lighting invasion in the spring of 1940 overran much of the country before the Army could be fully mobilized. The force's badge appears in the the canton of the flag of the Chief of the Home Guard. The Home Guard does not have a distinguishing flag but it does, like the Army and Air Force, have a ceremonial standard. General officers of the Home Guard use the Army/Air Force pattern rank flags. Unit standards of the Army and Home Guard display the Norwegian lion, while Air Force unit standards display the air force badge. Also illustrated on this page are the flags of the Minister of Defense and the Chief of the Defense Staff, and the standard of the Defense Staff.

ARMY
NORWEGIAN MILITARY ACADEMY	HIS MAJESTY'S ROYAL GUARD
NORDENFJELDSKE INTELLIGENCE REGIMENT	MILITARY POLICE DEPARTMENT
BRIGADE NORD
TELEMARK BATTALION (MECHANIZED INFANTRY)	2nd BATTALION (MECHANIZED INFANTRY)
ARMORED BATTALION	ARTILLERY BATTALION
FINNMARK BRIGADE
\ PORSANGER BATTALION (ARMORED RECONNAISSANCE)	RANGER BATTALION GSV (BORDER GUARD)
AIR FORCE
NORWEGIAN AIR FORCE ACADEMY	AIR FORCE FLIGHT SCHOOL
HOME GUARD
OSLOFJORD HOME GUARD DISTRICT 1	OSLO & AKERSHUS HOME GUARD DISTRICT 2
MØRE & FJORDANE HOME GUARD DISTRICT 11	HALOGALAND HOME GUARD DISTRICT 16
FINNMARK HOME GUARD DISTRICT 17

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