Military of Ciarnesia

The Armed Forces of Ciarnesia (Ciarnesian: Fortele Armate de Ciarnesca) is a collective title for the Land Forces, Naval Forces and Air Forces of the Commonwealth of Ciarnesia.

The current Commander-in-chief is Lieutenant General Gabriel Tepescu, managed by the Minister of National Defense, while the president is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces during wartime.

39,926 men and women currently comprise the Armed Forces, 31,405 of them being military personnel and the other 8,521 civilians. The Land Forces have a reported strength of 26,492, the Air Force 8,635 and the Naval Forces 1,002, while the remaining 3,797 serve in other fields.

History
The Armed Forces of Ciarnesia was formed in March 1992 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. At the time approximately 68,000 Soviet military personnel remained in Ciarnesia, most of them who spoke Ciarnesian or Romanian as a first language.

On March 6, 1992; the Parliament of Ciarnesia enacted a bill which called for the assimilation of Soviet forces on Ciarnesian soil into two groups - the Land Forces of Ciarnesia and the Air Forces of Ciarnesia.