Soldat (Romania)

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The shoulder insignia of a Soldat. (Here of a military medicine personnel or a firefighter)

Soldat (soldier) is the lowest rank in the Romanian Land Forces. It is the equivalent of jandarm (English: gendarme) in the Romanian Gendarmerie.

In day-to-day usage, the term soldat denotes every man or woman enrolled in the Romanian Armed Forces, irrespective of their actual rank or branch in which they activate.


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