She attended the US Army War College in 2006 and became deputy commander of the Norwegian Army Forces Command in 2007.
After her appointment as Norway's first female major general in 2009, she took over command of 45,000 light infantry troops as chief of staff of the Norwegian Home Guard.
In January, she was chosen to head veterans affairs on the Norwegian Defense Staff.
As a major general, Lund said, "you have to be a thinker and a doer, but I'm probably more a doer.''
Lund said before she retired she wanted to go overseas again and when she was asked by the ministry of defense whether she would be interested in trying to become a UN peacekeeping force commander, "I said yes, I love the UN."
