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technical colleges. He also addressed the previously significant deficiencies in field repair services. Ehnbom was highly involved in modernizing the training of army technicians and improving their salaries. He achieved this, among other things, by relinquishing all responsibility for equipment maintenance and care until the authorities decided on an improvement. This improvement came through the 1960 mechanic training. Ehnbom retired on 1 April 1964, and was appointed as a civilian military
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26:'s Ordnance Department. In 1948, with the formation of the Swedish Army Corps of Engineers, he became a first-grade army director, holding the rank of lieutenant colonel. Ehnbom was a prominent anti-aircraft defence theorist, particularly focusing on the
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was soon reached. Upon his return to Sweden, Ehnbom continued to work within
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weaponry arrived, rendering the heavier anti-aircraft defence obsolete. In the reorganization of the Royal
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and worked to modernize the training and salaries of army technicians. He retired in 1964, holding the title of civilian military major general in the reserve.
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Ehnbom worked as a laboratory engineer at Platen-Munters' Refrigerating
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