Ruwan joined army in 1984 as an
officer cadet, receiving his basic training at the
Sri Lanka Military Academy and was commissioned on 16 December 1985 as a
Second lieutenant in the 1st Battalion,
Sri Lanka Light Infantry. He held platoon and company level command, seeing combat in the
Sri Lankan Civil War. He graduated from the
Special Forces Training School in North Carolina and the
University of Malaya in Strategic and Defence Studies obtaining
PSC.
Senior command Kulatunga commanded an infantry battalion in
Jaffna and
Vanni during the height of the operations against the
Tamil Tigers. His staff appointments included Colonel, General Staff of the 53 Infantry Division (Reserve Strike Force) from 2002 to 2003. Later in December 2005 he was appointed an Infantry Brigade Commander, an appointment which he held until September 2007 in Muhamalei, Jaffna. During war Kulatunga was the
Commandant of Jaffna Town Sector responsible for coordinating civil affairs and administration in the peninsula. He is a graduate of
National Defense College of the Philippines in National Security Administration. He was the Commander,
55 Infantry division in 2012 in Jaffna. Major General Kulatunga also held several notable appointments such as commandant of
Sri Lanka Military Academy,
military assistant to the
Commander of the Army (Sri Lanka), director of operations at the
Army Headquarters.
Chief of National Intelligence In June 2019, he was appointed to
Chief of National Intelligence by President
Sirisena succeeding
Sisira Mendis who resigned after giving testimony that the Parliamentary
select committee to inquire into the
2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings which had outraged President Sirisena. ==References==