Specialist officer
# Specialist officer

In Finnish Defence Forces, specialist officers (Finnish: Erikoisupseeri : erikois + wikt:upseeri) is a group of military personnel which are officers assigned to tasks that required special non-military training in some areas: medicine, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, music, economics and technical fields. Their military ranks range from lieutenant to lieutenant general.

## Notable specialist officers

* Jukka Juusti, Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Defense (2016-2021), engineer lieutenant general
* Kari Renko [fi], director of the logistics department of the Defense Forces (2020-2022), engineer major general
* Kimmo Koskenvuo [fi], Chief Medical Officer of Finnish Defense Forces (1978-1996), medical lieutenant general
* Pekka Somer [fi], Chief Medical Officer of the Defense Forces (1953–1967), medical lieutenant-general
