ARMY COMBAT FITNESS TEST (ACFT)

Authors

  • George-Florin BĂIȚAN Academia Tehnică Militară

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12753/2284-9378-20-28

Abstract

Servicemen’s capabilities and skills represent the basis of the increasing professional level required to plan and carry out military actions within a multinutional framework, under various  circumstances pertaining to geopolitics, relief and climate, tradition and civilization. The overall vision of an army must be centered on servicemen’s mental and physical training that could be, at a certain moment, the key to success on any military operation they conduct.

Servicemen deploying on NATO missions have to cope with a complex, lethal, competitive, dynamic operational environment, which has evolved over the past years, with the opponents resorting to a combination of asymmetric hybrid conventional and unconventional strategies. Thus, servicemen’s physical training programs need constant improvement in order to keep up with the requirements consistent with modern warfare. Moreover, the regular assessment aimed at checking the military personnel’s physical fitness must evolve accordingly to validate their combat readines.

Author Biography

George-Florin BĂIȚAN, Academia Tehnică Militară

Mr. Băiţan George Florin este asistent universitar la Academia Tehnică Militară unde predă, începând cu anul universitar 2007-2008, cursurile de Educaţie fizică militară şi Educaţie fizică şi sport. Este absolvent al Liceului Militar „Ştefan cel Mare” din Câmpulung-Moldovenesc, promoţia 1996, şi al Facultăţii Militare de Educaţie Fizică şi Sport „General Virgil I. Bădulescu” din cadrul Academiei Naţionale de Educaţie Fizică şi Sport – Bucureşti, promoţia 2000. În anul 2005, cînd era încadrat ca ofiţer în compartimentul conducere operaţii şi instrucţie, a participat timp de 6 luni cu Batalionul 2 Infanterie „Călugăreni” la misiunea „Antica Babilonia” din Irak. În anul 2011 finalizează cursurile masterului de Managementul activităţilor de educaţie fizică şi sport din cadrul Facultăţii de Educaţie Fizică şi Sport a Universităţii Ecologice din Bucureşti. A participat la două activităţi de tip Staff Mobility – Training în cadrul programului ERASMUS, la Academia Forţelor Terestre din Wroclaw, Polonia în anul 2014 şi la Universitatea din Amsterdam, Olanda în anul 2015. Începând cu 01.10.2014 este student doctorand la Şcoala doctorală din cadrul Universităţii Naţionale de Apărare „Carol I”, domeniul „Ştiinţe militare”.

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Published

2020-07-02

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BĂIȚAN, G.-F. . (2020). ARMY COMBAT FITNESS TEST (ACFT). BULLETIN OF "CAROL I" NATIONAL DEFENCE UNIVERSITY, 9(2), 106–113. https://doi.org/10.12753/2284-9378-20-28

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2020)

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