In Myanmar, military rank system and insignia are used by the

Myanmar Armed Forces Tatmadaw (, , ) is the official name of the armed forces of Myanmar (formerly Burma). It is administered by the Ministry of Defence and composed of the Myanmar Army, the Myanmar Navy and the Myanmar Air Force. Auxiliary services include th ...

, its auxiliary services, some government departments and some civilian organizations. All the government employees are called "

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personnel" (, . Their ranks and appointments are grouped into two category: # Officer () or gazetted officer (), "''(a) Officer means the service personnel at the ranks of the gazetted officer and above; (b) Staff means the service personnel at the ranks below the gazetted officer''" whose promotion and posting are recorded in the Gazette of Myanmar () # Staff (), ranks below the gazetted officers. Personnels of the Armed Forces and the Police Force are included in the civil service personnels but the rules of civil service personnels are not applied to them because of the special nature of their duties. The rank insignia of Myanmar Armed Forces is the basic form for all other rank insignia in Myanmar. * Some departments/organizations use the same insignia as that of the Armed Forces but with different colour, (example: rank insignia of Myanmar Police Force use silver stars instead of golden ones).Myanmar police chief Major General Zaw Win cautions reporters in Naypyidaw to accept only information that the police confirm about the killing of prominent rights attorney Ko Ni, Feb. 1, 2016. / RFA /
/ref> * Some use the same style as that of the Armed Forces but with organization's symbol in place of military stars (example: rank insignia of

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use red crosses in place of rank stars). * Those departments that don't use the military-like uniform system, use the pin badges with rank insignia (example: rank insignia of

General Administration Department The General Administration Department ( my, အထွေထွေအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးဦးစီးဌာန, abbreviated GAD) is a civil service body that staffs all regional and state-level governments in Myanmar and provides adm ...

).The badge of a civil servant working at the Eastern Yangon General Administration Department office in Thingangyun Township. (Teza Hlaing / Frontier)
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Myanmar Armed Forces

All three branches of

— Myanmar Army, Myanmar Navy and Myanmar Air Force — use the same rank system and insignia, the same rank titles in Burmese. But the English translations of titles are different according to the branch. For example, the

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rank in Burmese is "" (bauilaʻ khayupaʻ) for all three branches, but for the English translation, it is "Major General" for Army and Air Force, while it is "Vice Admiral" for the Navy.

Officers

In Myanmar Armed Forces, the officer cadets graduated from Defense Services Academies ( DSA, DSMA,

DSTA DSTA may refer to: * Defence Science and Technology Agency, a statutory board under the purview of the Ministry of Defence, Singapore * Defence Services Technological Academy, the premier technological university of the Myanmar Armed Forces * Tetra ...

, etc.) and Officer Training Schools (OTS) are directly appointed as gazetted officers with the rank of Second lieutenant. The Armed Forces has a unique general officer rank: Vice-senior general ( my, ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး, Dautaiya bauilaʻ khayupaʻ mahūʺkarīʺ), a rank between the five-star rank of

Senior general Senior (shortened as Sr.) means "the elder" in Latin and is often used Suffix (name)#Generational titles, as a suffix for the elder of two or more people in the same family with the same given name, usually a parent or grandparent. It may also refe ...

and the four-star rank of General/Admiral. It is also a four-star rank but it is higher than the ordinary General or Admiral.

Special insignia of general/flag officers

In addition to the regular rank insignia, the general/flag officers have additional ones, that are only for them.

Staffs

In Myanmar Armed Forces, insignia-wearing staffs are commonly referred to as (, ) by both enlisted staffs and officers. For example,

Warrant officer Warrant officer (WO) is a rank or category of ranks in the armed forces of many countries. Depending on the country, service, or historical context, warrant officers are sometimes classified as the most junior of the commissioned ranks, the mos ...

s and

Staff sergeant Staff sergeant is a rank of non-commissioned officer used in the armed forces of many countries. It is also a police rank in some police services. History of title In origin, certain senior sergeants were assigned to administrative, supervi ...

s are referred to as (, ),

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are referred to as and Corporal/ Lance Corporal as (, ). These unofficial ranks are in used throughout the daily life of all branches of Myanmar Armed Forces. Insignia-wearing staffs within the 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.

Myanmar Police Force

Myanmar Police Force is an independent department of the

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, one of the ministries under administration of

Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services The commander-in-chief of Defence Services () is the commanding officer of the Tatmadaw, the armed forces of Myanmar. Since a state of emergency was declared following the 2021 military coup d'état, the commander-in-chief has been the highest ...

. The rank insignia of Myanmar Police Force are the insignia of Myanmar Armed Forces with different colours and with different titles.

Officers

In Myanmar Police Force, a person of the rank of Police second lieutenant and above is called an officer (); while an officer of the rank of Police Captain and above is called a gazetted officer ().

Staffs

Prisons Department

Prisons Department is a department of the

, one of the ministries under administration of

. The rank insignia of its officers are the same as that of Myanmar Police Force but with different titles.

Officers

Staffs

General Administration Department

is a department of the

, one of the ministries under administration of

. As its uniform is not the military style, pin badges are used to show ranks.A civil servant stands outside the Eastern Yangon General Administration Department office in Thingangyun Township. (Teza Hlaing / Frontier)
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Officers

Staffs

References

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