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Per Kurt (Percurt) Green (born 2 December 1939) is a

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officer whose senior commands have included commanding officer of the Joint Operations Command, Deputy Supreme Commander and military commander of the

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, and Commandant General in Stockholm.

Early life

Green was born on 2 December 1939 in

Karlstad Karlstad (, ) is the 20th-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city proper had 67,122 inhabitants in 2020 with 97,233 inhabitan ...

, Sweden, the son of Kurt Green and his wife Maj (née Karlmark).

Career

Green was commissioned as an officer in 1963 and attended the Swedish Armed Forces Staff College from 1969 to 1971. Green attended the International Officer Class of the

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in the

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from 1977 to 1978. On 1 June 1983, Green was promoted to colonel and appointed deputy regimental commander of

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(I 15) in Borås. He attended the Swedish National Defence College in 1984 and the same year he was promoted to senior colonel and appointed chief of staff of Bergslagen Military District (Milo B). On 1 April 1986, Green assumed the position of section head in the Defence Staff. In November 1986, Green was appointed head of the

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's Budget and Planning Department. He served in this position until 1989. Green also served as secretary in the 1988 Defence Committee (''Försvarskommittén''). He was promoted to major general on 1 April 1989 and was at the same time assigned to the

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. In 1990, Green attended the Swedish National Defence College again. Green served as head of army materiel at the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration from 1 July 1990 to 1994. Green was promoted to lieutenant general on 1 July 1994 and assumed the position of Chief of the Joint Operations Command (''Operationsledningen'', OpL) at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters and Deputy Supreme Commander. From 1998 to 2000, Green served as military commander of the

(Milo M) and Commandant General in Stockholm. He retired in 2000. Green has served as board member of the

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, the

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and the

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. He was also CEO of Association of Swedish Defence Industries (''Försvarsindustriföreningen''). In January 2005, Green co-chaired the Nordic and Baltic Industrial Co-Operation Agreements in

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Personal life

In 1976, he married Britt Boilert (born 1939).

Dates of rank

*1963 – Second lieutenant *19?? –

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*19?? –

Captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader or highest rank officer of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police depa ...

*1974 –

Major Major most commonly refers to: * Major (rank), a military rank * Academic major, an academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits * People named Major, including given names, surnames, nicknames * Major and minor in musi ...

*1979 – Lieutenant colonel *1 June 1983 –

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*1984 –

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*1 April 1989 – Major general *1994 –

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Awards and decorations

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Grand Cross of the

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(24 November 1998) * AUT Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria - 5th Class BAR

Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria (1993)

Honours

*Member of the

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(1980) *Member of the International Hall of Fame,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Percurt 1939 births Living people Swedish Army lieutenant generals People from Karlstad Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences Non-U.S. alumni of the Command and General Staff College