Air Force ranks and insignia of Myanmar

Officer rank insignia of the Myanmar Air Force are now on light blue shoulder boards with the rank insignia.

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 Air Force	No equivalent
			General		Lieutenant General		Major General		Brigadier General		Colonel		Lieutenant Colonel		Major		Captain		First Lieutenant			Second Lieutenant			Officer Cadet
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

Non-Commissioned Officers are referred to as Saya, meaning teacher, by both seamen and officers. For example, Warrant Officers, Regimental Sergeant Majors and Master Sergeant are referred to as Sayagyi, literally meaning "Old Teacher", Sergeant are referred to as Saya and Corporal/Lance Corporal as Sayalay. These unofficial ranks are used throughout the daily life of all branches. Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO) within the Myanmar Armed Forces are usually seasoned veteran soldiers. Thus both Officers and enlisted men 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 Air Force																	No equivalent										No equivalent								No insignia
	Warrant officer						Master Sergeant		Staff sergeant		Sergeant												Corporal						Senior Aircraftman						Aircraftman
Myanmar title	အရာခံဗိုလ်						ဒုအရာခံဗိုလ်		တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး		တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး												တပ်ကြပ်						ဒုတပ်ကြပ်