Army ranks and insignia of Myanmar

The following is a list of military appointments and ranks of the Myanmar Army. As a former British colonial territory, its ranks follow those of the British Army.

Military appointments

The military appointments of the Myanmar Army, arranged according to seniority, is as follows:

1. Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services
2. Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services
3. Chief of General Staff (Army/Navy/Airforce)
4. Commander-in-Chief (Army)
5. Adjutant General
6. Quartermaster General
7. Chiefs Bureau of Special Operation
8. Chief of Air Defense Forces
9. Chief of Defense Industries
10. Judge Advocate General
11. Military Appointments General
12. Chief of Armed Forces Training
13. Defense Services Inspector General
14. Defense Services Auditor General
15. Chief of Military Affairs Security
16. Chief of Staff (Army)
17. Director of Defense Services Procurement
18. Director of Signals
19. Director of Ordnance
20. Director of Military Engineering
21. Director of Artillery
22. Director of Armour
23. Director of Missile
24. Director of People Relation and Psychological Welfare
25. Directorate of Peoples Militia and Frontier Forces
26. Director of Resettlement
27. Tatmadaw Provost Marshal
28. Director of Medical Services
29. Commanders of Regional Military Commands
30. Vice Adjutant General
31. Vice Quartermaster General
32. Commanders of Light Infantry Divisions
33. Commanders of Military Operation Commands
34. Commanders of Regional Operation Commands
35. Commanders of Artillery Operation Commands
36. Commanders of Armoured Operation Commands
37. Tactical Operation Commands
38. Chief Commanding Officer of the Universities Training
39. Commanding Officer
40. Second in Command (2 I.C)
41. Intelligence Officer
42. Adjutant
43. Quarter Master
44. Medical Assistance warrant officer
45. Unit Account
46. Head Clerk
47. Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant
48. Apprentice
49. General Staff Officer (G 1)
50. Adjutant Staff Officer (A 1)
51. Quartermaster Staff Officer (Q 1)
52. Assistant Judge Advocate General (Judge 1)

Rank

The various rank of the Myanmar Army are listed below in descending order:^[1]

Commissioned officers

Officer rank insignia of the Myanmar Air Force are now on light blue shoulder boards with the rank insignia.

Equivalent NATO code	OF-10		OF-9		OF-8		OF-7		OF-6		OF-5		OF-4		OF-3		OF-2		OF-1						OF(D) and student officer
Myanmar (Edit)																									Unknown
	Senior General (ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး)		Vice Senior General (ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး)	General (ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး)	Lieutenant General (ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး)		Major General (ဗိုလ်ချုပ်)		Brigadier (ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ်)		Colonel (ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး)		Lieutenant Colonel (ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး)		Major (ဗိုလ်မှူး)		Captain (ဗိုလ်ကြီး)		Lieutenant (ဗိုလ်)			Second Lieutenant (ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်)
Abbreviation	ဗခမက		ဒုဗခမက	ဗခက	ဒုဗခက		ဗခ		ဗမခ		ဗမက		ဒုဗမက		ဗမ		ဗက		ဗ			ဒုဗ

Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs)

In Myanmar armed forces, Non-Commissioned Officers are refer to as Sayar, meaning Teacher, by both enlisted men and officers. For example, Warrant Officers, Regimental Sergeant Majors and Company Sergeant Major are refer to as BO LAY , literally meaning "SUB CAPTATIN", Sergeant are refer to as Sayar and Corporal/Lance Corporal as Sayar Lay. These unofficial rank are in used throughout the daily life of all branches of Myanmar Armed Forces. Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO) within Myanmar Armed Forces are usually seasoned veteran soldiers with wide-ranging experience of the battlefield, thus both officers and enlisted men refer to them as "teacher" out of respect as well as affection. Just like in the Commonwealth of Nations, as the Tatmandaw is modelled on the British practice, all privates do not wear rank insignia at all.

Myanmar Army
Burmese title	အရာခံဗိုလ်	ဒုအရာခံဗိုလ်	တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး	တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး	တပ်ကြပ်	ဒုတပ်ကြပ်
MLC TS	A Yar Khan Bo	Du A Yar Khan Bo	Tat Khwè Tat Kyat Kyee	Tat Kyat Kyee	Tat Kyat	Du Tat Kyat
Translation	Warrant Officer	Vice Warrant Officer	Company Great Sergeant	Great Sergeant	Sergeant	Vice Sergeant
Western version	Master sergeant	Sergeant first class	Staff sergeant	Sergeant	Corporal	Lance corporal
UK equivalent	Warrant officer class one	Warrant officer class two	Staff sergeant	Sergeant	Corporal	Lance corporal

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