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" (Burmese: နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်း, romanized: nuiṅʻ ṅaing nangʻwimn thamʻʺ, lit. 'State's employee'). Their ranks and appointments are grouped into two categories:

1. Officer or gazetted officer ,^[1] whose promotion and posting are recorded in the Gazette of Myanmar.^[2]
2. Staff or Other Ranks ranks below the gazetted officers.^[1]

Personnel of the Armed Forces and the Police Force are included in the civil service personnel but the rules of civil service personnel 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).
• 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).^[5]