The new Porsanger camp will be given status as centre for all allied training in Norway, NRK reports.
Today there is an allied army training camp at Voss in western Norway. This camp will now be moved to Porsanger, says politician Bendiks Harald Arnesen to NRK. Arnesen is a member of the defence committee in the Norwegian Parliament.
Porsanger is a community which long has been highly dependent on employment from the army garrison. When the army decided to move the garrison, many feared it would cause a crisis in the local community. The establishment of an allied army training camp could ease off some of the difficulties.
Arnesen will not call the new establishment in Porsanger a compensation for loosing the garrison, but recognizes that the small community needs help in a difficult period of change over.
From before there two allied training camps in Northern Norway, one in Harstad and one in Evenes.
