After 25 years in service, he left the Danish army and returned home.
The area was again used as a military camp of the Danish army until 1983.
Thus, the Danish army could never mount a serious attack on the capital itself.
A way round the problem was to flee and became an officer in the Danish army.
At the age of 18, he was drafted by the military and spent the next two years in the Danish army as a sergeant.
Since 2002 the number of ground forces committed by the Danish army has been steadily increased from 50 to 750 soldiers and support staff.
The Danish army says that this may be a reaction to the cartoons.
However, any reinforcement from the Danish army, weakened by disease, came to nothing.
This is the standard cover in the Danish army.
However, there continued to be a threat by another Danish army that was active on the continent.