title: Military ranks of Bhutan
text: # Military ranks of Bhutan
  
  The Military ranks of Bhutan are the military insignia used by the Military of Bhutan. Bhutan is a landlocked country, and does therefore not possess a navy. Additionally, Bhutan does not have an air force. India is responsible for military training, arms supplies and the air defense of Bhutan.
  
  ## Commissioned officer ranks
  
  The rank insignia of commissioned officers.
  
  | Rank group | General/flag officers | General/flag officers | General/flag officers | General/flag officers | General/flag officers | General/flag officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers |
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  | Royal Bhutan Army vte | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
  | Royal Bhutan Army vte | གུང་ བློན་ གོང མ ། Gung blon gong ma | གུང་ བློན་ གོང མ ། Gung blon gong ma | གུང་ བློན་ འོག མ ། Gung blon 'og ma | གུང་ བློན་ འོག མ ། Gung blon 'og ma | མདོ་ འཛིན ། Mdo 'dzin | མདོ་ འཛིན ། Mdo 'dzin | དམག་ སྲིད་ གོང མ ། Dmag srid gong ma | དམག་ སྲིད་ གོང མ ། Dmag srid gong ma | དམག་ སྲིད་ འོག མ ། Dmag srid 'og ma | དམག་ སྲིད་ འོག མ ། Dmag srid 'og ma | ལིང་ དཔོན ། Ling dpon | ལིང་ དཔོན ། Ling dpon | སྤྱི་ དཔོན ། Spyi dpon | སྤྱི་ དཔོན ། Spyi dpon | སྡེ་ གོང་ ། Sde gong | སྡེ་ གོང་ ། Sde gong | སྡེ་ གོང་ ། Sde gong | སྡེ་ གོང་ ། Sde gong | སྡེ་ གོང་ ། Sde gong | སྡེ་ གོང་ ། Sde gong |
  | Royal Bhutan Army vte | Lieutenant general | Lieutenant general | Major general | Major general | Brigadier | Brigadier | Colonel | Colonel | Lieutenant colonel | Lieutenant colonel | Major | Major | Captain | Captain | Lieutenant | Lieutenant | Lieutenant | Lieutenant | Lieutenant | Lieutenant |
  
  ## Other ranks
  
  The rank insignia of non-commissioned officers and enlisted personnel.
  
  | Rank group | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Senior NCOs | Junior NCOs | Junior NCOs | Junior NCOs | Junior NCOs | Junior NCOs | Junior NCOs | Enlisted | Enlisted | Enlisted | Enlisted | Enlisted | Enlisted | Enlisted | Enlisted |
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  | Royal Bhutan Army vte | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No insignia | No insignia | No insignia | No insignia | No insignia | No insignia | No insignia | No insignia |
  | Royal Bhutan Army vte | འགྲིམ་ དཔོན་ གོང མ ། Drimpongom | འགྲིམ་ དཔོན་ གོང མ ། Drimpongom | འགྲིམ་ དཔོན་ གོང མ ། Drimpongom | འགྲིམ་ དཔོན་ གོང མ ། Drimpongom | འགྲིམ་ དཔོན་ གོང མ ། Drimpongom | འགྲིམ་ དཔོན་ གོང མ ། Drimpongom | སྡེ་ འགྲིམ ། Dedrim | སྡེ་ འགྲིམ ། Dedrim | འགྲིམ་ དཔོན ། Drimpon | འགྲིམ་ དཔོན ། Drimpon | སྤེལ་ དཔོན ། Pelpon | སྤེལ་ དཔོན ། Pelpon | སྤེལ་ དཔོན ། Pelpon | སྤེལ་ དཔོན ། Pelpon | སྤེལ་ དཔོན ། Pelpon | སྤེལ་ དཔོན ། Pelpon | སྤེལ་ དཔོན ། Pelpon | སྤེལ་ དཔོན ། Pelpon | སྤེལ་ དཔོན ། Pelpon | སྤེལ་ དཔོན ། Pelpon | སྤེལ་ དཔོན ། Pelpon | སྤེལ་ དཔོན ། Pelpon | སྤེལ་ རྒྱབ ། Peljab | སྤེལ་ རྒྱབ ། Peljab | སྤེལ་ རྒྱབ ། Peljab | སྤེལ་ རྒྱབ ། Peljab | འགོ་ པ ། Gopa | འགོ་ པ ། Gopa | | | | | | | | |
  | Royal Bhutan Army vte | Warrant officer 1st class | Warrant officer 1st class | Warrant officer 1st class | Warrant officer 1st class | Warrant officer 1st class | Warrant officer 1st class | Warrant officer 2nd class | Warrant officer 2nd class | Warrant officer 3rd class | Warrant officer 3rd class | Sergeant | Sergeant | Sergeant | Sergeant | Sergeant | Sergeant | Sergeant | Sergeant | Sergeant | Sergeant | Sergeant | Sergeant | Corporal | Corporal | Corporal | Corporal | Lance corporal | Lance corporal | Private | Private | Private | Private | Private | Private | Private | Private |
  