Organisation
See also: Skaraborgs regemente (infantry)#OrganisationIn peacetime Skaraborgs regiment trains conscripts for the Swedish wartime organisation. Skaraborgs regiment train armoured troops and use the Swedish modified Leopard 2A5 IS, Strv 122, and vehicles from the CV90 family. The peacetime organisation train one battalion a year around 600 people. The main garrison is situated in Skövde in Västergötland and most of the training grounds can be found around Skövde, the regiment also has a smaller detachment in Kvarn in Östergötland where Grenadjär company and a Mortar platoon is trained.
The peacetime organisation is not synonymous with the wartime organisation. But in the peacetime organisation conscripts are trained at following companies.
- Lif company - Staff duty, Anti-aircraft, Scouts, 12 cm Mortar (attached to Grenadjär company in Kvarn)
- Skånings company - Mechanized infantry CV90
- Wartofta company - Tank Strv 122
- Norra Wadsbo company - Transport
- Södra Wadsbo company - Supplies
- Grenadjär company - Mechanized infantry CV90, trains Mortar platoon
- Wilska company - Light infantry Patgb 203, guards
Other vehicles used by the regiment: TGB 11, 13 & 20, Bv 206.
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