RFMF - Key Persons
CDRE Tawake has served on four international peacekeeping missions with the Multinational Force & Observers (MFO) in Egypt in 2001, United Nations
CDRE Tawake is a keen sports administrator and assists in community youth enhancement programs and sports clubs. He is married and blessed with five lovely children.
Major General Jone Logavatu Kalouniwai was appointed Commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces on 16 th September 2021 after spending sixteen months as Director General National Security and Intelligence at the Ministry of Defense National Security, Policing from May 2020. He enlisted into the RFMF on 23rd October 1987 and was later commissioned into the Officers Corp on 10th May 1992. Prior to his commissioning, he served as a Section Commander in Lebanon and a Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) Instructor at the RFMF Training School. As a commissioned officer of the RFMF, he served in various officer appointments in various missions with the Multinational Forces and Observers in Sinai, Egypt; UN missions in Lebanon; East Timor; Iraq; and the Golan Heights, Syria. During these overseas missions, Major General Kalouniwai has held various junior and senior command and staff appointments.
His last command appointment was in MFO, Sinai commanding the 2 nd Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regiment. His last Staff appointment was in Syria as a Colonel where he served as the UN mission Chief of Staff for UNDOF overseeing the operational and strategic functions of its Multinational HQ for two years: 2014-15 & 2015-16.