Army ranks and insignia of Burma

The following is a list of military appointments and ranks of the Burmese Army.

  1. Commander in Chief of Defence
  2. Deputy Commander in Chief of Defence
  3. Commander in Chief (Army
  4. Commander in Chief (Navy)
  5. Commander in Chief (Air)
  6. Adjutant General
  7. Quartermaster General
  8. Chief of Armed Forces Training
  9. Chief of Military Security
  10. Bureau of Special Operation
  11. Chief of Staff (Army)
  12. Director of Defence Services Procurement
  13. Director of Signals of the Ministry of Defence
  14. Director of Ordnance
  15. Military Appointments General
  16. Vice Adjutant General
  17. Vice Quartermaster General
  18. Director of Military Training
  19. Director of Military Engineering
  20. Director of Artillery and Armour
  21. Director of People Relation and Psychological Welfare
  22. Directorate of Peoples Matitia and Frontier Forces
  23. Defence Services Inspector General
  24. Judge Advocate General
  25. Director of Resettlement
  26. Tatmadaw Provost Marshal
  27. Director of Medical Services
  28. Commander of .....Command
  29. Commander of No. (...) Light Infantry Division
  30. Tactical Operation Command
  31. Chief Commanding Officer of the Universities Training
  32. Commanding Officer
  33. Second in Command (2 I.C)
  34. Intelligence Officer
  35. Adjutant
  36. Quarter Master
  37. Medical Assistance
  38. Unit Account
  39. Head Clerk
  40. Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant
  41. Apprentice
  42. General Staff Officer (G 1)
  43. Adjutant Staff Officer (A 1)
  44. Quartermaster Staff Officer (Q 1)
  45. Assistant Judge Advocate General (Judge 1)

Contents

Rank

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

Commissioned Officers

Myanmar Armed Forces
Burmese title ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး ဗိုလ်ချုပ် ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး ဗိုလ်မှူး ဗိုလ်ကြီး ဗိုလ် ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်
MLC TS Bo Gyoke Hmu Gyi Du Bo Gyoke Hmu Gyi Bo Gyoke Kyee Du Bo Gyoke Kyee Bo Gyoke Bo Hmu Gyoke Bo Hmu Gyi Du Bo Hmu Gyi Bo Hmu Bo Gyi Bo Du Bo
Abbreviation - ဒု​ဗ​ခ​မက ဗ​ခ​က ဒု​ဗ​ခ​က ဗ​ခ ဗ​မ​ခ ဗ​မက ဒု​ဗ​မက ဗ​မ ဗ​က ဗ ဒု​ဗ
Western Version Senior General Vice Senior General General Lieutenant General Major General Brigadier General Colonel Lieutenant Colonel Major Captain Lieutenant Second Lieutenant
UK equivalent Field Marshal nil General Lieutenant General Major General Brigadier Colonel Lieutenant Colonel Major Captain Lieutenant Second Lieutenant
NATO Code OF-10 OF-9 OF-8 OF-7 OF-6 OF-5 OF-4 OF-3 OF-2 OF-1

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 Master Sergeant are refer to as Sayar Gyi, literally meaning "Old Teacher", 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.

Myanmar Armed Forces
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
Western Version Warrant Officer Regimental Sergeant Major Master Sergeant Sergeant Corporal Lance Corporal
UK equivalent Warrant Officer Class One Warrant Officer Class Two Staff Sergeant Sergeant Corporal Lance Corporal

References

  1. ^ Defence Services Historical and Research Institute
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