Military ranks of Myanmar

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" (နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်း). Their ranks and appointments are grouped into two categories:
 * 1) Officer or gazetted officer, whose promotion and posting are recorded in the Gazette of Myanmar.
 * 2) Staff or Other Ranks 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).
 * 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).
 * 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).

Myanmar Armed Forces
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.

Special insignia of general/flag officers
In addition the general/flag officers have additional special insignia.

Other Ranks
In Myanmar Armed Forces, Lance corporals and Corporals are commonly referred to as Saya (, lit. 'teacher') by both enlisted staffs and officers. Warrant officers (Class 1 and Class 2) are referred to as Bo Lay (, 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. 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.

Myanmar Police Force
Myanmar Police Force is an independent department of the Ministry of Home Affairs, one of the ministries under administration of Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services. The rank insignia of Myanmar Police Force are the insignia of Myanmar Armed Forces with different colours and with different titles.

Officers
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.

Prisons Department
Prisons Department is a department of the Ministry of Home Affairs, one of the ministries under administration of Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services. The rank insignia of its officers are the same as that of Myanmar Police Force but with different titles.

General Administration Department
General Administration Department is a department of the Ministry of Home Affairs, one of the ministries under administration of Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services. As its uniform is not the military style, pin badges are used to show ranks.