Commissioned officers[]
Officer rank insignia of the Myanmar Air Force are now on light blue 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) & Student officer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Myanmar (Edit) |
No equivalent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General | Lieutenant General | Major General | Brigadier General | Colonel | Lieutenant Colonel | Major | Captain | First Lieutenant | Second Lieutenant | Officer Cadet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 |
Aircraftman 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.
Myanmar Air Force |
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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 | Master Aircrew | Flight Sergeant | Senior Aircraftman | Leading Aircraftman | Aircraftman |
References[]
The original article can be found at Air Force ranks and insignia of Myanmar and the edit history here.