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
Myanmar (Edit)	No equivalent	Admiral	Vice Admiral	Rear Admiral	Commodore	Captain	Commander	Lieutenant Commander	Lieutenant	Sub-Lieutenant	Midshipman	No equivalent
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.

Equivalent NATO code	OR-9						OR-8		OR-7		OR-6						OR-5						OR-4				OR-3		OR-2						OR-1
Myanmar (Edit)																	No equivalent												No equivalent						No insignia
Myanmar (Edit)	Master Chief Petty Officer အရာခံဗိုလ်						Senior Chief Petty Officer ဒုအရာခံဗိုလ်		Chief Petty Officer တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး		Petty Officer တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး						No equivalent						Senior Leading တပ်ကြပ်				Leading ဒုတပ်ကြပ်		No equivalent						Able Body

Navy ranks and insignia of Myanmar

Commissioned officers

Naval rating insignia

See also