Navy ranks and insignia of Myanmar
This article describes the Navy ranks and insignia of Burma (Myanmar).
Commissioned officers
Officer rank insignia of the Myanmar Navy are now on dark blue shoulder boards with the rank insignia.
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| Myanmar title | ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး | ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး | ဗိုလ်ချုပ် | ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် |
| MLC TS | Bo Gyoke Kyee | Du Bo Gyoke Kyee | Bo Gyoke | Bo Hmu Gyoke |
| Abbreviation | ဗခက | ဒုဗခက | ဗခ | ဗမခ |
| Western Version | General | Lieutenant General | Major General | Brigadier General |
| UK/US equivalent | Admiral | Vice Admiral | Rear Admiral | Commodore |
| NATO Code | OF-8 | OF-7 | OF-6 | |
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| Myanmar title | ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး | ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး | ဗိုလ်မှူး | ဗိုလ်ကြီး | ဗိုလ် | ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ် |
| MLC TS | Bo Hmu Gyi | Du Bo Hmu Gyi | Bo Hmu | Bo Gyi | Bo | Du Bo |
| Abbreviation | ဗမက | ဒုဗမက | ဗမ | ဗက | ဗ | ဒုဗ |
| Western Version | Colonel | Lieutenant Colonel | Major | Captain | Lieutenant | Second Lieutenant |
| UK/US equivalent | Captain | Commander | Lieutenant Commander | Lieutenant | Sub-lieutenant | Ensign |
| NATO Code | OF-5 | OF-4 | OF-3 | OF-2 | OF-1 | |
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 Master Sergeant 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 Myanmar Armed Forces are usually seasoned veteran soldiers. Thus both Officers and enlisted men refer to them as "teacher" out of respect.
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| 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.