The National Home Guard Combat School, HvSS, has as its principal task the training of Home Guard officers and NCOs for their duties in peacetime and in time of emergency or war. In addition the school trains personnel from both Nordic and Baltic countries. The students from Denmark and Norway participate in the regular courses while specially prepared courses are arranged for students from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
The school is located in a former country estate house in Vällinge, northeast of Södertälje.