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Myanmar/ Burma Military Ranks
The Myanmar/ Burma Army has 20 ranks — 12 officer and 8 enlisted — from တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ up to ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ. Below: all 60 ranks across 3 branches (Army, Navy, Air Force), with insignia and NATO-code equivalents.
Branches
3
Ranks documented
60
Active personnel
201K
Army
Rank Ladder
Highest first · 20 of 20 matched
| 🇲🇲 Myanmar · Army | NATO code |
Equivalent in
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|---|---|---|
| Officers | ||
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ
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OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army |
General of the Army
|
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army |
General of the Army
|
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
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OF-9 General |
General
|
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
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OF-8 Lieutenant General |
Lieutenant general
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ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ
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OF-7 Major General |
Major general
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ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ
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OF-6 Brigadier General |
Brigadier general
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ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
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OF-5 Colonel |
Colonel
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ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
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OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel |
Lieutenant colonel
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ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ
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OF-3 Major / Commandant |
Major
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ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ
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OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant |
Captain
|
ဗိုလ် Builʻ
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OF-1 Lieutenant |
First lieutenant
Second lieutenant
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ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ
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OF-1 Lieutenant |
First lieutenant
Second lieutenant
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| Enlisted ranks | ||
အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
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OR-9 Sergeant Major |
Command sergeant major
Sergeant major
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ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
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OR-8 1st Sergeant |
First sergeant
Master sergeant
|
တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ
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OR-6 Staff Sergeant |
Staff sergeant
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တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ
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OR-5 Sergeant |
Sergeant
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တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ
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OR-4 Corporal |
Specialist
Corporal
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ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ
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OR-3 Private 1st Class |
Private first class
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| တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ | OR-2 Private |
Private
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| တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ | OR-1 Private | Private |
Navy
Rank Ladder
Highest first · 20 of 20 matched
| 🇲🇲 Myanmar · Navy | NATO code |
Equivalent in
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|---|---|---|
| Officers | ||
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army |
Fleet admiral
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ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army |
Fleet admiral
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ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
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OF-9 General |
Admiral
|
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
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OF-8 Lieutenant General |
Vice admiral
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ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ
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OF-7 Major General |
Rear admiral
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ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ
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OF-6 Brigadier General |
Rear admiral (lower half)
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ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
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OF-5 Colonel |
Captain
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ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
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OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel |
Commander
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ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ
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OF-3 Major / Commandant |
Lieutenant commander
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ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ
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OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant |
Lieutenant
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ဗိုလ် Builʻ
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OF-1 Lieutenant |
Lieutenant (junior grade)
Ensign
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ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ
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OF-1 Lieutenant |
Lieutenant (junior grade)
Ensign
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| Enlisted ranks | ||
အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
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OR-9 Sergeant Major |
Command master chief petty officer
Master chief petty officer
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ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
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OR-8 1st Sergeant |
Command senior chief petty officer
Senior chief petty officer
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တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ
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OR-6 Staff Sergeant |
Petty officer first class
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တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ
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OR-5 Sergeant |
Petty officer second class
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တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ
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OR-4 Corporal |
Petty officer third class
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ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ
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OR-3 Private 1st Class |
Seaman
|
| တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ | OR-2 Private |
Seaman apprentice
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| တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ | OR-1 Private | Seaman recruit |
Air Force
Rank Ladder
Highest first · 20 of 20 matched
| 🇲🇲 Myanmar · Air Force | NATO code |
Equivalent in
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|---|---|---|
| Officers | ||
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army |
General of the Air Force
|
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army |
General of the Air Force
|
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
|
OF-9 General |
General
|
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
|
OF-8 Lieutenant General |
Lieutenant general
|
ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ
|
OF-7 Major General |
Major general
|
ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ
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OF-6 Brigadier General |
Brigadier general
|
ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
OF-5 Colonel |
Colonel
|
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
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OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel |
Lieutenant colonel
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ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ
|
OF-3 Major / Commandant |
Major
|
ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ
|
OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant |
Captain
|
ဗိုလ် Builʻ
|
OF-1 Lieutenant |
First lieutenant
Second lieutenant
|
ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ
|
OF-1 Lieutenant |
First lieutenant
Second lieutenant
|
| Enlisted ranks | ||
အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
|
OR-9 Sergeant Major |
Command chief master sergeant
First sergeant
Chief master sergeant
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ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
|
OR-8 1st Sergeant |
First sergeant
Senior master sergeant
|
တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ
|
OR-6 Staff Sergeant |
Technical sergeant
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တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ
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OR-5 Sergeant |
Staff sergeant
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တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ
|
OR-4 Corporal |
Senior airman
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ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ
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OR-3 Private 1st Class |
Airman first class
|
| တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ | OR-2 Private |
Airman
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| တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ | OR-1 Private | Airman basic |
Overview
- 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.
Myanmar Military
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Insignia image credits
- MrInfo2012, derivative work by နေနီဝန်း — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons: ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ (Navy), ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ, ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ (Navy), ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ (Navy), ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ (Navy), ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ (Navy), ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ (Navy), ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ (Navy), ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ (Navy), ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ (Navy), ဗိုလ် Builʻ (Navy), ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ (Navy), ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ (Air Force), ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ (Air Force), ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ (Air Force), ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ (Air Force), ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ (Air Force), ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ (Air Force), ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ (Air Force), ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ (Air Force), ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ (Air Force), ဗိုလ် Builʻ (Air Force), ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ (Air Force)
- MrInfo2012 — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons: ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ, ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ, ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ, ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ, ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ, ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ, ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ, ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ, ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ, ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ, ဗိုလ် Builʻ, ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ
- Skjoldbro — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons: ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ, တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ, တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ, တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ, ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ
- Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons: အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
- MrInfo2012, နေနီဝန်း — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons: ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ