Myanmar/ Burma Military Ranks
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- Myanmar Army (တပ်မတော်(ကြည်း)): Conducts land-based military operations, infantry warfare, and counter-insurgency campaigns. Headquartered in Naypyidaw, the branch is organized into regional military commands and light infantry divisions. It utilizes armored, artillery, and engineer regiments to engage armed opposition groups across the country.
- Myanmar Navy (တပ်မတော်(ရေ)): Executes maritime defense, coastal patrol, and riverine operations along the coastline and inland waterways. Headquartered in Naypyidaw, it operates a fleet of frigates, corvettes, fast attack craft, and diesel-electric submarines. The branch manages naval bases across regional commands and oversees the Navy Special Operations Task Force.
- Myanmar Air Force (တပ်မတော်(လေ)): Conducts aerial warfare, close air support, transport, and air reconnaissance operations. Headquartered in Naypyidaw, it operates fighter aircraft, ground-attack jets, transport planes, and a helicopter fleet. The branch coordinates with ground forces through the Myanmar Integrated Air Defence System.
- Myanmar Coast Guard (မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ကမ်းခြေစောင့်တပ်ဖွဲ့): Performs maritime law enforcement, search and rescue, and environmental protection within territorial waters and the exclusive economic zone. Governed by the 2025 Myanmar Coast Guard Law, the force is headquartered in Thanlyin, operates under the Ministry of Defence, and is overseen by the Navy. It utilizes fast patrol vessels to combat piracy, illegal trafficking, and unauthorized fishing.
| Rank name |
Insignia |
NATO code |
US Army equivalent |
| ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ |
|
OF-10 |
Marshal / General of the Army |
| ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ |
|
OF-10 |
Marshal / General of the Army |
| ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ |
|
OF-9 |
General |
| ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ |
|
OF-8 |
Lieutenant General |
| ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ |
|
OF-7 |
Major General |
| ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ |
|
OF-6 |
Brigadier General |
| ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ |
|
OF-5 |
Colonel |
| ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ |
|
OF-4 |
Lieutenant Colonel |
| ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ |
|
OF-3 |
Major / Commandant |
| ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ |
|
OF-2 |
Captain / 1st Lieutenant |
| ဗိုလ် Builʻ |
|
OF-1 |
Lieutenant |
| ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ |
|
OF-1 |
Lieutenant |
| အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ |
|
OR-9 |
Sergeant Major |
| ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ |
|
OR-8 |
1st Sergeant |
| တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ |
|
OR-6 |
Staff Sergeant |
| တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ |
|
OR-5 |
Sergeant |
| တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ |
|
OR-4 |
Corporal |
| ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ |
|
OR-3 |
Private 1st Class |
| တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ |
|
OR-2 |
Private |
| တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ |
|
OR-1 |
Private |
| Rank name |
Insignia |
NATO code |
US Army equivalent |
| ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ |
|
OF-10 |
Marshal / General of the Army |
| ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ |
|
OF-10 |
Marshal / General of the Army |
| ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ |
|
OF-9 |
General |
| ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ |
|
OF-8 |
Lieutenant General |
| ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ |
|
OF-7 |
Major General |
| ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ |
|
OF-6 |
Brigadier General |
| ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ |
|
OF-5 |
Colonel |
| ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ |
|
OF-4 |
Lieutenant Colonel |
| ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ |
|
OF-3 |
Major / Commandant |
| ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ |
|
OF-2 |
Captain / 1st Lieutenant |
| ဗိုလ် Builʻ |
|
OF-1 |
Lieutenant |
| ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ |
|
OF-1 |
Lieutenant |
| အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ |
|
OR-9 |
Sergeant Major |
| ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ |
|
OR-8 |
1st Sergeant |
| တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ |
|
OR-6 |
Staff Sergeant |
| တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ |
|
OR-5 |
Sergeant |
| တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ |
|
OR-4 |
Corporal |
| ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ |
|
OR-3 |
Private 1st Class |
| တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ |
|
OR-2 |
Private |
| တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ |
|
OR-1 |
Private |
| Rank name |
Insignia |
NATO code |
US Army equivalent |
| ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ |
|
OF-10 |
Marshal / General of the Army |
| ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ |
|
OF-10 |
Marshal / General of the Army |
| ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ |
|
OF-9 |
General |
| ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ |
|
OF-8 |
Lieutenant General |
| ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ |
|
OF-7 |
Major General |
| ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ |
|
OF-6 |
Brigadier General |
| ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ |
|
OF-5 |
Colonel |
| ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ |
|
OF-4 |
Lieutenant Colonel |
| ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ |
|
OF-3 |
Major / Commandant |
| ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ |
|
OF-2 |
Captain / 1st Lieutenant |
| ဗိုလ် Builʻ |
|
OF-1 |
Lieutenant |
| ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ |
|
OF-1 |
Lieutenant |
| အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ |
|
OR-9 |
Sergeant Major |
| ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ |
|
OR-8 |
1st Sergeant |
| တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ |
|
OR-6 |
Staff Sergeant |
| တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ |
|
OR-5 |
Sergeant |
| တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ |
|
OR-4 |
Corporal |
| ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ |
|
OR-3 |
Private 1st Class |
| တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ |
|
OR-2 |
Private |
| တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ |
|
OR-1 |
Private |
