
kokan1- Sergeant

- Name : Ljubomir
Location : Zagreb, Croatia
Registration date : 2010-12-02
Number of posts : 295
by kokan1 Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:16 pm
The Danish Home Guard (Danish: Hjemmeværnet) (HJV) is the fourth service of the Danish Military, concerned exclusively with the defence of Danish territory. Service is voluntary and unpaid, except that the most basic expenses are covered. Albeit workshop and depot staff plus clerks and senior officers are all paid. As a result of women's lib, the unarmed Women's Army Corps (Lottekorpset) was merged in 1989 with the then all-male Home Guard to the present, armed unisex Home Guard. Its top authority is the Home Guard Command (HJK), which, unlike Army Operational Command (HOK), Amiral danish Fleet (SOK) and Tactical Air Command (FTK), is managed directly by the Danish Ministry of Defence (FMN). Only in times of tension and war will the Danish Defence Command (FKO) assume command over the Home Guard. As of 2004, it consists of 58,640 active members, of which 9,152 are women. It is divided into four branches: the Army Home Guard, the Police Home Guard, the Air Force Home Guard, the Naval Home Guard and the Infrastructure Home Guard. 