page_title: Allied Forces North Norway
section_title: Reinforcements
hierarchical_section_title: Allied Forces North Norway / Structure in 1989 / Reinforcements
caption_attribution_description: English: An overall shot of the entrances to the Bjugn Cave Facility in Norway. This picture shows some of the equipment already pulled from the cave parked on the lot that will be taken to Estonia for Baltic Challenge '97, a Partnership for Peace exercise. The US Marine Corps have equipment stored in Norway as part of the Norway Air-Landed Marine Expeditionary Brigade (NALMEB) Prepositioning Program. The NALMEB program contains equipment and supplies to support a 13,000 person Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) for 30 days. The Government of Norway is the on site "contractor" that provides storage, maintenance facilities, services, and security. This gear is stored in a series of 6 caves located in the Trondheim region of central Norway.
context_page_description: Allied Forces North Norway was a NATO command tasked with the defense of Northern Norway. NON's area of responsibility covered the three northernmost counties of Norway: Nordland, Troms and Finnmark, as well as the adjacent sea territory. It formed part of Allied Forces Northern Europe.
context_section_description: NON would have been reinforced by the following Norwegian units from Allied Forces South Norway:
  Brigade 5 (Norwegian Home Guard District 5 mobilization unit) in Terningmoen in Eastern Norway, equipment pre-positioned in Northern Norway
  1st Infantry Battalion
  2nd Infantry Battalion
  3rd Infantry Battalion
  Field Artillery Battalion with M109G 155mm self-propelled howitzers
  Reconnaissance Squadron
  Anti-tank Missile Company
  Anti-Aircraft Battery
  Engineer Company
  Artillery Observation Platoon with 2x Cessna O-1A planes
  Brigade 6 (Norwegian Home Guard District 6 mobilization unit) in Hønefoss in Eastern Norway, equipment pre-positioned in Northern Norway
  1st Infantry Battalion
  2nd Infantry Battalion
  3rd Infantry Battalion
  Field Artillery Battalion with M114 155mm towed howitzers
  Reconnaissance Squadron
  NATO would have planned to reinforce Allied Forces North Norway with 2-7 days with the following allied formations:
  Allied Land Forces:
  Royal Navy: 3 Commando Brigade including 1 Amphibious Combat Group and Whiskey Company of the Netherlands Marine Corps. The brigade trained annually in Northern Norway and had large stores of vehicles and supplies pre-positioned there.
  U.S. Marine Corps: the 4th Marine Amphibious Brigade of the II Marine Amphibious Force (also known as Norway Air-Landed Marine Expeditionary Brigade (NALMEB)) had its equipment pre-positioned in eight purpose-built caves near the Værnes Air Station in Trondheim in central Norway. The eight caves contained material for 15,000 troops and war stocks for 30 days. Three of the caves held ground equipment, three munitions and two held aviation support equipment for two air defense and two ground attack squadrons, as well as for 75 heavy transport and light support helicopters.  Exercise Teamwork, held every two years during the 1980s, practiced reinforcement of Norway. After that point Exercise Battle Griffin was held in 1993 and 1996.
  Allied Air Forces:
  United States Air Force: eight squadrons
  Royal Air Force: one squadron
caption: US Marine Corps Norway Air-Landed Marine Expeditionary Brigade (NALMEB) Prepositioning Program material at the Bjugn Cave Facility
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