Huoltoaliupseeri
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Huoltoaliupseeri (also known as "Huoltopalvelualiupseeri") also known as the Huolto-AU, is the Finnish term for a supply NCO.
Usually the supply NCO's complete a few months in the infantry NCO-course, but are then transferred either by their own willingness or by "the needs of the company" to the special NCO course designed to train supply NCO's.
So, what do the supply NCO's do, exactly? Well, their jobs are usually that of supply, naturally. Most often, though, if the supply NCO ends up in a non-supply company - let's say an infantry company for an example, then he only has a few possibilities for work - he either leads the team responsible for field cooking (muonitusryhmä) inside the supply platoon of a company, or then if he or she gets "lucky", he might end up as the supply platoon commander and Toimisto-AU (Clerk NCO) all at the same time.
