This paper represents a theoretical and descriptive approach of exploring the concept of bornout and its manifestation in the professional military environment. The bornout syndrome, considered a public health problem, represents an advanced stage of stress at the workplace. The most affected by the „century syndrome” are intelligent people, highly motivated and ambitious, that are involved a lot during the work time. Out of the the desire to assert themselves or the passion for what they do, they make great efforts, they work a lot overtime, and this behavior affects their personal life. The burnout syndrome manifests itself by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced professional accomplishment and may cause total failure and/ or permanent one to resume the activity. This paper highlights the causes of this problem (causes related to work, causes related to lifestyle, causes related to personality type) which tend to turn into a global phenomenon that affects all categories of workers; the manifestation of stress in the military environment; its effects both on the individual and on organization, the stages of this process(the ideal enthusiasm, inefficient stagnation, frustration, apathy full of disappointment), and also some benchmarks of anti-burnout conduct.