Navy ranks and insignia of Myanmar

Officers serving in the Myanmar Navy are assigned to ranks. There are ten ranks of Commissioned officers, from admiral down to ensign. As for non-commissioned officers, there are six ranks from warrant officer down to able seaman. The ranks are distinguished on uniforms by insignia worn on dark blue shoulder boards.

Commissioned officers

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)	No equivalent																								No equivalent
			Admiral		Vice Admiral		Rear Admiral		Commodore		Captain		Commander		Lieutenant Commander		Lieutenant		Lieutenant (junior grade)			Ensign
Myanmar title			ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး		ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး		ဗိုလ်ချုပ်		ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ်		ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး		ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး		ဗိုလ်မှူး		ဗိုလ်ကြီး		ဗိုလ်			ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်
Abbreviation			ဗခက		ဒုဗခက		ဗခ		ဗမခ		ဗမက		ဒုဗမက		ဗမ		ဗက		ဗ			ဒုဗ

Naval rating insignia

Non-Commissioned Officers are referred to as Saya, meaning Teacher, by both seamen and officers. For example, Warrant Officers, Regimental Sergeant Majors and Staff Sergeants are referred to as Sayagyi, literally meaning "Old Teacher", Sergeant are referred to as Saya and Corporal/Lance Corporal as Sayalay. These unofficial ranks are used throughout the daily life of all branches. Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO) within the Navy are usually seasoned veteran naval ratings with years of service and experience. Thus both Officers and ratings refer to them as "teacher" out of respect.

Myanmar Navy
Myanmar title	အရာခံဗိုလ်	ဒုအရာခံဗိုလ်	တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး	တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး	တပ်ကြပ်	ဒုတပ်ကြပ်
MLC TS	Ayagan Bo	Du-Ayagan Bo	Tatkhwè Tatkyatkyi	Tatkyatkyi	Tatkyat	Du-Tatkyat
Western Version	Warrant Officer	Regimental Sergeant Major	Staff Sergeant	Sergeant	Corporal	Lance Corporal
UK equivalent	Warrant Officer Class One	Warrant Officer Class Two	Chief petty officer	Petty officer	Leading seaman	Able seaman

Seamen wear no insignia at all.

See also

• Myanmar Navy