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 and who care
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

The Tatmadaw has two unique general officer ranks: Senior General, held by the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services and Vice Senior General, the second highest, held by the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services and the Commander-in-Chief, Myanmar Army. The latter is the highest rank for all the other service branches. Officer rank insignia of the Myanmar Army are now on light green 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 General (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)

Non-Commissioned Officers are refer to as Saya (ဆရာ, lit. "teacher") by both enlisted men and officers. For example, Warrant Officers, Regimental Sergeant Majors and Company Sergeant Major are referred to as Bo Lay (ဗိုလ်လေး, lit. "sub-captain"), Sergeant are referred to as Saya and Corporal/Lance Corporal as Saya Lay (ဆရာလေး, lit. "little teacher"). 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 Tatmadaw is modelled on the British practice, all privates do not wear rank insignia at all.

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 insignia
	Warrant officer class 1 အရာခံဗိုလ်						Warrant officer class 2 ဒုအရာခံဗိုလ်		Staff Sergeant တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး		Sergeant တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး												Corporal တပ်ကြပ်				Lance Corporal ဒုတပ်ကြပ်		Private

References

1. Defence Services Historical and Research Institute