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Forțele pentru Operații Speciale — Comando (Batalionul 53 Comando „Smaranda Brăescu”)
Annual fitness test, M.99/2021 table 1, group II — entry to the FOS Comando qualification (Testul de evaluare a nivelului de pregătire fizică)

Serving soldiers enter the Romanian Special Operations Forces through the Comando qualification programme at the FOS training school „Burebista”: 22 weeks (13 weeks of preparation and 9 weeks of evaluation and selection), with assignment to the 53rd Comando Battalion in Bacău. To apply, a candidate must pass the army’s annual fitness test at the special-operations standard (table 1) for age group II (30–35), whatever their actual age. The test is push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups and a 3000 m run, all on the same day.

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minimum 15:45

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The test, event by event

EventMinimum (table 1, age group II)
Push-ups in 2 min (flotări)40
Sit-ups in 2 min (abdomene)40
Pull-ups (tracțiuni)8
3000 m run (alergare 3000 m)15:45

Also required

  • Qualification programme (serving personnel): rank no higher than captain (căpitan) for officers, no higher than plutonier major / maistru militar cls. II for NCOs and warrant officers, or professional soldier (SGP); declared fit („APT”) in the special medical examination at INMAS „General doctor aviator Victor Anastasiu”.
  • Programme structure: 22 weeks at the FOS training school „Burebista” (Vlădeni) — 13 weeks of preparation and 9 weeks of evaluation and selection (evaluare și selecție); graduates are assigned to the 53rd Comando Battalion „Smaranda Brăescu” in Bacău.
  • Civilian route: in the 2023 recruitment of professional soldiers „parașutist comando” for Bacău, applicants had to be 18–45 years old with 10 years of schooling and pass the utility obstacle course in 1:50 or less, 2 km in 10:30, 3 km in 15:40, at least 30 push-ups and 30 sit-ups in 2 minutes, at least 5 pull-ups and a 25 m freestyle swim, followed by psychological, hospital and INMAS checks.
  • NCO course „Comando” at ScIFOS „Burebista”: no older than 45 on the day the course ends, baccalaureate (bacalaureat) and a category B driving licence; graduates become sergeants (sergent). The 2026–2027 entrance exam has no fitness test — only a parachute-trainer exit within 10 seconds and a 45-question test; fitness is checked in the earlier CFOS selection, whose standards are not published.
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Questions

Why age group II if I am younger than 30?

The 2024 call for the Comando programme requires a pass at table 1, group II (30–35), regardless of the candidate’s age. The annual test itself has seven age groups; for group I (under 30) the special-operations minimums are higher: 45 push-ups, 45 sit-ups, 9 pull-ups and 3000 m in 15:15. Values are the same for men and women. Each event scores 50 points at the minimum and up to 100 above it (for example +2 points per extra push-up, +5 per extra pull-up).

Is there a loaded march or a published selection standard?

No. The FOS sources do not publish a loaded-march standard, and the standards of the CFOS selection itself (Dispoziția S.M.Ap. 81/2021) are not public. The calculator therefore checks only the entry test. The only related figure in the regulation is an obstacle course of 6 minutes (under 35) or 7 minutes (over 35) before deployments abroad.

Where do the numbers come from?

From the order of the Minister of National Defence M.99 of 13 May 2021 (Monitorul Oficial no. 524 of 20 May 2021), Annex 2, table 1, in force since 1 January 2022, and from the ScIFOS „Burebista” call for the Comando qualification programme (February 2024), which names group II. Later amendments to the regulation (M.190/2023, M.213/2024) could not be read, so the values are marked as approximate.

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