Ringerike Army (Ringerike Hær)

Overview
The Ringerike army is the principal ground warfare force of the His Majesty's Armed Forces (Ringerike). Consisting of the full-time Army and the part time volunteer reserve the army is responsible for ground based warfare, and also maintaining a limited organic aviation capability. The majority of infantry regiments contains multiple regular and reserve battalions. Modern infantry have diverse capabilities and this is reflected in the varied roles assigned to them. There are seven operational roles that infantry battalions can fulfil: Parachute infantry, air assault, armoured infantry, mechanised infantry, mountain infantry and light role infantry. Some units also perform specialist secondary duties, such as 33 Mountain Jeger Regiment (33. Fjelljegerregiment), which provides a national mountain rescue service. Regiments and battalions e.g.: the Life Guards Regiment, exist within every corps of the Army, functioning as administrative or tactical formations.

Arms and support units are also formed into similar collectives organised around specific purposes, such as the Corps of Engineers and the Logistics Corps.

Operational Organisation
The Ringerike army is operationally grouped around three divisional commands and several smaller independent brigades and regiments, these are:

1 Armored Division
1 Armored Division provides the backbone of Ringerike's armored combat power, maintained as a rapidly deployable heavy spearhead force for Home Defense and Expeditionary Combat Operations, it consists of the following units and is stationed at the Stavanger Garrison:


 * The Guards Armored Brigade
 * 51 Armored Brigade
 * 43 Armored Brigade
 * 14 Artillery Brigade
 * 105 Logistics Brigade
 * 7 Air Defense Group
 * 25 Engineer Group

2 Armored Division
2 Armored Division provides bolsters Ringerike's armored combat power, as well as providing a flexible strategic reserve, capable of conducting all manners of combat and non-combat tasks, it consists of the following units and is stationed at the Thuyishavn Garrison:


 * 17 Armored Brigade
 * 43 Armored Brigade
 * 26 Mechanized Brigade
 * 19 Artillery Brigade
 * 121 Logistics Brigade
 * 18 Air Defense Group
 * 24 Engineer Group

6 Division
6 Armored Division provides forces for tasks such as asymmetric warfare, intelligence, counter-intelligence, cyber warfare and unconventional fighting, as well as specialist formations that are not required to be attached to other commands. It consists of the following units and is stationed at the Boldo Garrison:


 * 1 Intelligence Brigade
 * 81 Signals Brigade
 * 66 Brigade
 * Infantry Advisory Group
 * 101 (Independent) Recconnaissance Company
 * 1 Medical Brigade
 * 8 Engineer Brigade

15 Airborne Brigade
15 Airborne Brigade is the Ringerike Army's premier rapid reaction force, providing a short notice forced entry, or international reinforcement capability to the Ringerike Government, within the 15 Airborne Jeger Regimental Group have passed the All-Arms Jeger School. Also contained within the Brigade is the HJK, the Army's Special Forces, which most often operates outside of the Brigade's command structure. The Brigade consists of the following:


 * 15 Airborne Jeger Regiment
 * HJK (Hærens Jegerkommando)
 * 3 Special Aviation Regiment

33 Mountain Jeger Regiment
The 33 Mountain Jeger Regimental Group provides the Army's mountain and extreme cold weather warfare specialists, as well as a national specialist Mountain Rescue capability during peacetime, all troops withing the Regimental Group have passed the All-Arms Jeger School before specializing in Mountain Warfare.

62 Coastal Artillery Brigade
62 Coastal Artillery Brigade is a hybrid Regular-Reserve formation that manages Ringerike's coastal artillery installations and other defensive systems, most of the gun crews are reservists, however much of the command and maintenance staff is comprised of regulars.

1 Border Security Brigade
1 Border Security Brigade provides an administrative structure for the Border regiments which, during peacetime, specialize in border security and patrolling, serving as second line light infantry units during full scale mobilization.

Independent Formations
Outside of the divisional/specialist commands several other combat formations exist to provide flexible and scale-able response forces, including the Light Brigades, who are light infantry specialists, most of whom are also cross trained as air mobile troops to support the rapid response capability of 15 Airborne Brigade. These formations include:


 * 3 Light Brigade
 * 87 Light Brigade
 * 77 Mechanized Brigade
 * 4 Mechanized Brigade
 * 17 Mechanized Brigade
 * 9 Mechanized Brigade

Army Reserve
The Army Reserve is broken into the Standing Reserve, composed of actively participating reservists and the Secondary Reserve, a pool of unassigned manpower composed of former serving troops regular and reserve who are committed to as little as 5 days a year. The Standing Reserve is Organised into the following fully equipped Regional Brigade Combat Groups focused almost solely on Home Defense:


 * The Capital Security Brigade
 * The Larvik Brigade
 * The Nordland Brigade
 * The Boldo Brigade
 * The Kvitsøy Brigade
 * The Herøy Brigade
 * The Ulstein Brigade
 * The Hustadvika Brigade
 * The Hå Special Defensive Area Brigade

The Brigade Of Guards
The Brigade of Guards is formed of the Units attached for ceremonial purposes to the Royal Household of The Kingdom of Ringerike, including the infantry battalions of the Life Guards Regiment, and the cavalry of the Royal Dragoon Guards, as well as the various Knight's Companies, reserve formations which are the Full Time Reserve units, employed by select members of the nobility, and primarily ceremonial in nature, however meet the limited training demands of the Army Reserve as light infantry.

Numbering System
A particular regiment may have have multiple numbered versions, each with several battalions, due to their regimental history and regional ties, for example, the name 2/6 Rifle Regiment (Nordland Highlanders) correlates to the second battalion of the sixth rifle regiment, which has the honorary battalion designation of Nordland Highlanders.