"Swedish Amphibious Corps" Håkan Syrén Hand Signed 4X6 Card For Sale

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"Swedish Amphibious Corps" Håkan Syrén Hand Signed 4X6 Card:
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Up for sale the "Swedish Amphibious Corps" General Håkan Syrén Hand Signed 4X6 Card.

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General

Håkan Erik Gunnar Syrén (born 31 January 1952) is a Swedish Amphibious Corps general and

former chairman of the European Union Military Committee.

He was the Supreme Commander of the Swedish

Armed Forces from 1 January 2004 to 25 March 2009, and was the first

Supreme Commander to come from the Navy. Syrén

was born in Växjö, Sweden, the son of lieutenant colonel Gunnar Syrén and his wife Siv Syrén. He grew up

in Uppsala,

where he graduated from Lundellska läroverket in

1970. Syrén studied at the Royal Swedish Naval Academy from which he

graduated in 1973. He was then instructor and platoon

commander at the Vaxholm Coastal Artillery Regiment

(KA 1) from 1973 to 1979 and studied at the Military Academy Karlberg in Stockholm

from 1980 to 1984. Syrén was a staff officer at the Naval Staff in Stockholm from 1984 to 1988

and was a student at the Naval War

College in Newport, Rhode Island, USA from 1988 to

1989. Back in Sweden, he was teacher of strategy at the Military Academy

Karlberg from 1989 to 1990 and head of the Planning Department at the Naval

Staff from 1990 to 1992. Syrén was then commanding officer of the Marine

Amphibious Battalion from 1992 to 1994 and commanding officer of the Vaxholm

Coastal Artillery Regiment from 1994 to 1996.

Syrén was head of Operations

Planning Department at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters

from 1996 to 1998. In 1997 he completed a management course at the Swedish Defence University and in 1999 he

completed the Senior International Defence Management Course (SIDMC) at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, USA. Back in Sweden,

Syrén served as secretary to the Defence Commission at the Ministry of Defence in 1999 and served as

director of the Military

Intelligence and Security Service at the Swedish Armed Forces

Headquarters from 1999 to 2003.

In 2004, Syrén was appointed Supreme Commander of the Swedish

Armed Forces. His appointment lasted until 31 December 2009. On 25

March 2009 he was succeeded by Sverker Göranson as Supreme Commander. On 29

October 2008, the Chiefs of Defence meeting of the European Union Military Committee

(EUMC) endorsed Syrén as the next chairman of the EUMC. In the position as

CEUMC he was formally appointed by the Council of the European Union for a period

of three years and succeeded general Henri Bentégeat on 6 November 2009. His

appointment lasted until November 2012 and after this, he started his

consulting firm In General AB the same year.

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