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- ↑ Sanitetsgeneralen, Hadeland, 7. okober. 2002 «Forsvaret har samlet sanitetstjenesten i et militærmedisinsk utdannings- og kompetansesenter (MUKS) på Sessvollmoen, og fredag ble Leif Sverre Rosén innsatt som sjef.»
- ↑ Melien, Tor Jørgen (2016). Forsvarets sanitet: Helse for stridsevne 1941–2016. Oslo: Dreyer. p. 27ff and p. 55ff. ISBN 978-82-8265-175-2.
- ↑ Jan Knudtzon Sommerfelt-Pettersen, "Hvordan bør Forsvarets sanitet utvikle seg? Vyer for fremtiden," Michael no. 1/2017