Air Force ranks and insignia of Myanmar

Commissioned officers

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

Myanmar Air Force
Myanmar title	ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး	ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး	ဗိုလ်ချုပ်	ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ်
MLC TS	Bo Gyoke Kyee	Du Bo Gyoke Kyee	Bo Gyoke	Bo Hmu Gyoke
Abbreviation	ဗခက	ဒုဗခက	ဗခ	ဗမခ
Western Version	General	Lieutenant General	Major General	Brigadier General
UK/US equivalent	Air Chief Marshal	Air Marshal	Air Vice Marshal	Air Commodore
NATO Code	OF-9	OF-8	OF-7	OF-6

Myanmar Air Force
Myanmar title	ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး	ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး	ဗိုလ်မှူး	ဗိုလ်ကြီး	ဗိုလ်	ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်
MLC TS	Bo Hmu Gyi	Du Bo Hmu Gyi	Bo Hmu	Bo Gyi	Bo	Du Bo
Abbreviation	ဗမက	ဒုဗမက	ဗမ	ဗက	ဗ	ဒုဗ
Western Version	Colonel	Lieutenant Colonel	Major	Captain	Lieutenant	Second Lieutenant
UK/US equivalent	Group Captain	Wing Commander	Squadron Leader	Flight Lieutenant	Flying Officer	Pilot Officer
NATO Code	OF-5	OF-4	OF-3	OF-2	OF-1

Aircraftman rating insignia

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.

Myanmar Air Force
Myanmar title	အရာခံဗိုလ်	ဒုအရာခံဗိုလ်	တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး	တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး	တပ်ကြပ်	ဒုတပ်ကြပ်
MLC TS	Ayagan Bo	Du-Ayagan Bo	Tatkhwè Tatkyatkyi	Tatkyatkyi	Tatkyat	Du-Tatkyat
Western Version	Warrant Officer	Regimental Sergeant Major	Staff Sergeant	Sergeant	Corporal	Lance Corporal
UK equivalent	Warrant Officer	Master Aircrew	Flight Sergeant	Senior Aircraftman	Leading Aircraftman	Aircraftman

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