The Vanuatu Mobile Force (VMF) is a small, mobile corps of 300 volunteers that makes up Vanuatu's military. Its primary task is to assist the Vanuatu Police Force. However, should Vanuatu be attacked, then the VMF will act as the first line of defence. In 1994, VMF deployed 50 people to Papua New Guinea, as their first peacekeeping mission. Though the armed forces in Vanuatu have never overthrown a government, members of the VMF angry about their pay detained President

Jean-Marie Léyé Jean-Marie Léyé Lenelgau (1932 – 9 December 2014) was a Vanuatuan politician and the president of Vanuatu from 2 March 1994 to 2 March 1999. Biography In 1976, the nation of Vanuatu was the Franco-British New Hebrides Condominium. Léyé w ...

and Deputy Prime Minister

Barak Sopé Barak Tame Sopé Mautamata (born 1951) is a ni-Vanuatu politician. He is the leader of the Melanesian Progressive Party and was, until 2008, a member of the Vanuatu parliament from the island of Efate. He was the Prime Minister of Vanuatu from ...

on October 12, 1996 but released them just a few hours later.

List of commanders

* Sato Kilman (1984 - 1986) * James Aru (? - ?) *Lieutenant Colonel Willie Vire (? - ?) *Lieutenant Colonel Job Esau (? - 2015) *Colonel Robson Iavro (2015–present)

Equipment of Vanuatu Mobile Forces

Infantry weapons

References

Vanuatu Military of Vanuatu {{Vanuatu-stub