The Military ranks of Myanmar are the military insignia used by the Myanmar Armed Forces, its auxiliary services, some government departments and some civilian organizations.
All the government employees are called "civil service personnel" (Burmese: နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်း, romanized: nuiṅʻ ṅaṃ vanʻthamʻʺ, lit. 'State's employee'). Their ranks and appointments are grouped into two categories:
Officer or gazetted officer ,[1] whose promotion and posting are recorded in the Gazette of Myanmar.[2]
Staff or Other Ranks ranks below the gazetted officers.[1]
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.[3]
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).[4]
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 Myanmar Red Cross Society use red crosses in place of rank stars).
All three branches of Myanmar Armed Forces use the same rank system and insignia. While the titles are the same across all branches in Burmese, English translations are different depending on the branch.
Officers
In Myanmar Armed Forces, the officer cadets who have graduated from Defense Services Academies (DSA, DSMA, DSTA, etc.) and Officer Training Schools (OTS) are directly commissioned as gazetted officers with the rank of Second Lieutenant or Sub-lieutenant.[6]
In Myanmar Armed Forces, Lance corporals and Corporals are commonly referred to as Saya (ဆရာ, lit.'teacher') by both enlisted staffs and officers. Warrant officers (Class 1 and Class 2) are referred to as Bo Lay (ဗိုလ်လေး, lit.'little lieutenant'), Sergeant and Staff Sergeant are referred to as Saya Gyi. These unofficial ranks are in used throughout the daily life of all branches of Myanmar Armed Forces.[citation needed] Insignia-wearing OR 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.[citation needed]
In the 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.[21]
^ abThe Union Civil Service Board Rules(PDF) (rules, 2). Union Civil Service Board of Myanmar. 11 September 2020. p. 1. 81/2020. "(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"
^Crouch, Melissa; Tim Lindsey (2014). Law, Society and Transition in Myanmar. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN9781782254768.
^The Rules Amending the Civil Service Personnel Rules (rules, 2). Union Civil Service Board. 9 June 2017. p. 1. ...Although the Defence Service Personnel and members of the Myanmar Police Force are the Civi Service Personnel, these rules shall not apply to them according to the nature of their works and duties.
^ abcdefghiAmerican Library Association. "Burmese"(PDF). loc.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
^ abcdCooke, Melinda W. (1983). "National Security". In Bunge, Frederica M. (ed.). Burma: a country study. Area Handbook (3rd ed.). Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. p. 256. LCCN83-25871. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
^ မြန်မာ–အင်္ဂလိပ် အဘိဓာန် [Myanmar English Dictionary]. Myanmar Language Commission, Department of Myanmar National Languages, Ministry of Education. 2019.
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