Navy ranks and insignia of Myanmar

Officers serving in the Myanmar Navy are assigned to ranks. There are ten ranks of Commissioned officers, from admiral down to ensign. As for non-commissioned officers, there are six ranks from warrant officer down to able seaman. The ranks are distinguished on uniforms by insignia worn on dark blue shoulder boards.

Commissioned officers

Equivalent NATO code	OF-10		OF-9		OF-8		OF-7		OF-6		OF-5		OF-4		OF-3		OF-2		OF-1						OF(D) and student officer
Myanmar Navy	No equivalent																								No equivalent
			Admiral		Vice Admiral		Rear Admiral		Commodore		Captain		Commander		Lieutenant Commander		Lieutenant		Sub-Lieutenant			Midshipman
Myanmar title			ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး		ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး		ဗိုလ်ချုပ်		ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ်		ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး		ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး		ဗိုလ်မှူး		ဗိုလ်ကြီး		ဗိုလ်			ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်
Abbreviation			ဗခက		ဒုဗခက		ဗခ		ဗမခ		ဗမက		ဒုဗမက		ဗမ		ဗက		ဗ			ဒုဗ

Naval rating insignia

Non-Commissioned Officers are referred to as Saya, meaning Teacher, by both seamen and officers. For example, Warrant Officers and Chief petty officers are referred to as Sayagyi, literally meaning "Old Teacher", petty officers are referred to as Saya and junior ratings as Sayalay. These unofficial ranks are used throughout the daily life of all branches. Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO) within the Navy are usually seasoned veteran naval ratings with years of service and experience. Thus both Officers and ratings refer to them as "teacher" out of respect.

Equivalent NATO code	OR-9						OR-8		OR-7		OR-6						OR-5						OR-4				OR-3		OR-2						OR-1
Myanmar Navy																	No equivalent												No equivalent						No insignia
	Master Chief Petty Officer အရာခံဗိုလ်						Senior Chief Petty Officer ဒုအရာခံဗိုလ်		Chief Petty Officer တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး		Petty Officer တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး												Senior Leading တပ်ကြပ်				Leading ဒုတပ်ကြပ်								Able Body

See also

• Myanmar Navy