In Officer club sauna in the evening
Of our sub-sergeants, only the most handsome men were invited to a sauna together with the officers one weekend. While being naked, we were measured from head to toe and tried to recruit for the armed forces. When I noticed what was intended, I disappeared straight away.
I did not seek carry on Ruk (Reserve Officer School) and RAuk was also disgusting to me. One of the Sergeants told me already 4 weeks after the start of the rookie period that others also heard it: "Concerning the case of the rookie Norrgård: It is useless to even try to pretend to be fool who is not able attend training at RAuk, your educational background already requires, that you must continue there."
Accident during military exercises
During RAuk, we were practicing landing from a proto car stage. When the air alarm came, we had to quickly jump from the proto car's platform to the ground. I was unlucky enough that the top of my rubber boots was stuck on the hook of the proto car's plastic roof. When I got my boots out of it, I quickly jumped overboard but fell upside down my head first onto a gravel road.
The drop distance was approximately 2 m (6 ft 7 in). Fortunately, I had the right moment to take the worst hit of a collision with my hands, but the stern of the rifle still hit me in the back of my head. Eye glasses's with plastic frame plucked the ground and tore the nasal cartilage open. Only a small bruise came to my back of head, hard-headed when I was.
The exercise was stopped there instantly and I was taken quickly to a battalion of patients in a ward where a young doctor practitioner tried his best to make my nose look normal. A few sticks went there. It didn't become the same as before. I had another accident during the sub-officer period.
While at Sipoo's military training, an alarm came at night and a sub-officer grabbed his rifle too uncarelessly on his shoulder, with the result that the cartridge breaker at the end of his rifle hit me in the right eye. The glass lens of my eye glasses broke into small pieces that sank into my right eye.
Lieutenant Heiniö ought to awakened in the middle of sleep and take me by his jeep to Tilkka Military Hospital in Helsinki. He fell asleep for the while and drove to the ditch. Then I instinctively opened my eyes. He asked me not to tell others and I promised to remain silent.
There was picked away about 20 pieces of large shards of glass from my eye. Thousands of thanks to Adonai that the accident did not affect in any way my right eye vision. On the contrary, last year, when I was 70-years old and eye exam for a driver's license renewal, it was found that with my right eye I saw exactly near and with my left eye exactly far. In the past, there was always marked on my driving license of the need to wear glasses, but last year that mention was removed!
HalleluYah!
One of my noble acts
When we went on a bike riding march with new rookies, I was already a sub-sergeant and a group leader. I was assigned to carry on the Topi radio and rifle and take leader position on the steering group while cycling. Topiradio weighed about 20 kg (44 lb 1,5 oz), so carrying it with straps on the back like a backpack with a rifle was no easy job.
By the time we had already driven the march halfway through, there was agreed a change of leader position. A rookie named Borgholm had to take Topi radio from me. I was already exhausted and wet at the time, but when we had already done the exchange and I saw his a horrorful and fearful look because he was more tired than me, I did the following:
I said him, "I see that you can't carry this Topi radio for the rest of the journey, so give it back to me now." I still clearly remember his expression of relief and gratitude. After catching up with the rest of the crowd, I heard Lieutenant Nudigan's voice from the microphone and it echoed across the crowd:
"I saw, what a noble act sub-sergeant Norrgård did, when he took Topi radio from the exhausted rookie to carry it self!" Sure, he could have rewarded me with an extra weekend vacation that I didn't get. He rewarded my noble act only so that no one had to carry Topi radio on his back when returning from the bicycle march.
Me and the rookie Borgholm were allowed to sit on the proto car platform during the return trip with our bikes and Topi radio and rifle. It was an even better reward, so I'm raising my hat on Lieutenant, but only for that reason!
I have never been so tired when we finally reached our destination on a bicycle march to Sipoo. I far exceeded my own physical endurance and rode the bicycle with the supernatural help I received in prayers. In addition to all the misery, I was assigned as a night watchman there in Sipoo. For that I do not give thanks to the Lieutenant!
So I had to work as watchman without sleep the whole following night after that terrible hard job. I remember falling asleep a few times at night and waking up when I heard the rustle of the spruce branches as I began slowly to fall. That's why I stood under its branches.
A humorous case in a military performance
We held a great military performance to the top commanders of the Swedish army. One group of tents had been ordered to turn off the fireplace, dismantle the tent and flee to the forest shelter within 2 minutes as soon as they heard a rifle shot from the edge of the forest.
It happened that a Swedish colonel asked a rookie to shoot with a rifle to the edge of the forest. The rookie made the mistake of obeying him. As a result, that tent disappeared into the forest too early. As the performance went wrong and everything other after that, so the already promised evening vacations were canceled.
Unfortunately, there was often an unfair in the military to impose mass punishment. In that case, it would have been right to deny the evening holidays only to that rookie and not everyone else.
On the other hand, the entire army would be a superfluous organization if all Finnish people would put their trust in their Creator and Redeemer, Adonai Yeshua. He would protect us like of his apple of eye!
Unfortunately, the majority of Finns today have a negative attitude towards Christianity. That is why we need an army, even if it cannot prevent Russia's future invasion of our country. As a result, Finland will lose its independence in the next few years, in line with what I saw in 2006. I'll write about it later in my book.
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