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:
- Commander in Chief of Defence Forces
- Deputy Commander in Chief of Defence Forces
- Commander in Chief (Army)
- Adjutant General of the Army
- Quartermaster General
- Chief of Armed Forces Training
- Chief of Military Security
- Bureau of Special Operation
- Chief of Staff (Army)
- Director of Defence Services Procurement
- Director of Signals of the Ministry of Defence
- Director of Ordnance
- Military Appointments General
- Vice Adjutant General
- Vice Quartermaster General
- Director of Military Training
- Director of Military Engineering
- Director of Artillery and Armour
- Director of People Relation and Psychological Welfare
- Directorate of Peoples Matitia and Frontier Forces
- Defence Services Inspector General
- Judge Advocate General
- Director of Resettlement
- Tatmadaw Provost Marshal
- Director of Medical Services
- Commander of .....Command
- Commander of No. (...) Light Infantry Division
- Tactical Operation Command
- Chief Commanding Officer of the Universities Training
- Commanding Officer
- Second in Command (2 I.C)
- Intelligence Officer
- Adjutant
- Quarter Master
- Medical Assistance
- Unit Account
- Head Clerk
- Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant
- Apprentice
- General Staff Officer (G 1)
- Adjutant Staff Officer (A 1)
- Quartermaster Staff Officer (Q 1)
- Assistant Judge Advocate General (Judge 1)
Rank[]
The various rank of the Myanmar Army are listed below in descending order:[1]
Commissioned Officers[]
Myanmar Armed Forces | ||||||||||||
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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[citation needed].
Myanmar Armed Forces | ||||||
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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[]
- ↑ Defence Services Historical and Research Institute
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