He was a non-commissioned officer in Vaxholm in the Stockholm archipelago at The Royal Coastal Artillery Regiment of Vaxholm (Sweden), (KA1), in the Swedish Coastal Artillery, which was just formed in 1902, at 21–23 years of age (1900–1902).
During the 1980s there was a general move towards modernization in the Swedish defense forces and the Coastal Artillery received several new weapon systems in the 1980s and 1990s, like the new 12/70 TAP fixed artillery system, the mobile artillery system 12/80 KARIN, the Stridsbåt 90 combat craft and missile systems like the RBS-15 and RBS-17 (anti-shipping version of AGM-114 Hellfire).
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Detachments from these two regiments were also responsible for keeping units at Fårösund coastal fortress on the northern tip of Gotland and at Älvsborg costal fortresses, located near the main shipping channel into Gothenburg.
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18 September to 6 October 1980: The Swedish Marine tugboat Ajax discovers the turret of a submarine outside Utö in the Stockholm Archipelago.
The feasibility of using even the unmodified PzH 2000 with unguided "dumb" rounds to attack naval targets had been proven previously by the Swedish Coastal Artillery with tests performed in May 1996.