Army ranks and insignia of Myanmar

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

Military Appointments

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

1. Commander in Chief of Defense Forces
2. Deputy Commander in Chief of Defense Forces
3. Commander in Chief (Army)
4. Adjutant General
5. Quartermaster General
6. Chiefs Bureau of Special Operation
7. Chief of Air Defense Forces
8. Chief of Defense Industries
9. Judge Advocate General
10. Military Appointments General
11. Chief of Armed Forces Training
12. Defense Services Inspector General
13. Defense Services Auditor General
14. Chief of Military Affairs Security
15. Chief of Staff (Army)
16. Director of Defense Services Procurement
17. Director of Signals
18. Director of Ordnance
19. Director of Military Engineering
20. Director of Artillery and Armour
21. Director of People Relation and Psychological Welfare
22. Directorate of Peoples Militia and Frontier Forces
23. Director of Resettlement
24. Tatmadaw Provost Marshal
25. Director of Medical Services
26. Commander of .....Command
27. Vice Adjutant General
28. Vice Quartermaster General
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)

Rank

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

Commissioned Officers

The Tatmandaw has two unique general officer ranks: Senior General, held by the Commander in Chief Tatmandaw, and Vice Senior General, the second highest, held by the Minister of Defense and the Commander in Chief, Myanmar Army. The latter is the highest rank for all the other service branches.

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	-	ဒုဗခမက	ဗခက	ဒုဗခက	ဗခ	ဗမခ	ဗမက	ဒုဗမက	ဗမ	ဗက	ဗ	ဒုဗ
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	Staff Sergeant	Sergeant	Corporal	Lance Corporal
UK equivalent	Warrant Officer Class One	Warrant Officer Class Two	Staff Sergeant	Sergeant	Corporal	Lance Corporal

Just like in the Commonwealth of Nations, as the Tatmandaw uses the British practice, all Privates do not wear rank insignia at all.

References

1. Defence Services Historical and Research Institute