Volunteer

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Volunteer, Volunteers or Voluntary may refer to one of the following:

Volunteerism

• Volunteering, the practice of people working on behalf of others without being motivated by financial or material gain
• Volunteer Aid Detachment - works in British hospitals
• Volunteers of America - U.S. religious group working in social welfare
• VoluntEARS, the term for Disney cast members who volunteer their time for charitable or community causes
• Volunteer fire department
• Volunteer Florida - Florida state government organization
• Volunteers for Israel - U.S. group working in Israel
• Volunteer Life Brigade - UK Coast Guard auxiliary
• Volunteer Ministers - a charitable program of the Church of Scientology
• Volunteer Rescue Association - Australian emergency response auxiliary
• Volunteers in Service to America - U.S. government-funded group working in social welfare
• Volunteer Special Constabulary - Singapore police auxiliary
• Military volunteer, a person who freely enlists for military service, as opposed to a draftee
  • Volunteer Gliding Squadron - Royal Air Force flying training units
  • Volunteer Army - counterrevolutionary army in South Russia during the 1918-20 Civil War.
  • Volunteer Army (British) - precursor to the Territorial Army.
  • Volunteer Force (Great Britain) - British Empire colonial army.
  • Volunteer Auxiliaries - Hilfswilliger in the German army from a Nazi occupied country; often not volunteers at all.
  • The Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers) - British colonial auxiliary
  • Volunteer Defence Corps (Australia)
  • In Ireland and Northern Ireland, a number of paramilitary groups, or a member of such a group:
    • Irish Volunteers (18th century)
    • Ulster Volunteers - British loyalist militia founded 1912
      • Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) - loyalist paramilitary group founded 1966
      • Volunteer Political Party - defunct party allied to the UVF
    • Irish Volunteers - Irish nationalist militia founded 1913
      • National Volunteers - Less militant offshoot from 1914
      • Irish Republican Army (IRA) - Successor to the Irish Volunteers.
        • List of organisations known as the Irish Republican Army - Successors of the original IRA still refer to members as "Volunteers"
          • Volunteer (Irish republican) - Member of Irish Republican Army

Ships

• The Volunteer (canal boat), a replica of a 19th-century canal boat which operates on the Illinois and Michigan Canal at LaSalle, Illinois, in the United States
• USS Volunteer, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

Places

• The Volunteer State, nickname for Tennessee
• Volunteer, North Carolina
• Volunteer Island, also called Starbuck Island, among the Line Islands of Kiribati
• Volunteer Park (Seattle)

• Volunteer Hotel, Balmain - former pub in Balmain, Sydney, Australia
• Volunteer State Community College - community college located in Gallatin, Tennessee

Sports

• The Volunteers (or Vols), the nickname of the University of Tennessee sports teams
• Volunteer State Athletic Conference, a defunct Tennessee college conference
• Volunteer 500, the original name of the Sharpie 500 NASCAR race
• Volunteer (yacht), the winner of the 1887 America's Cup
• Nashville Vols, a minor league baseball team based in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1901 to 1961 and again in 1963

Humanities

• Volunteers, a 1969 album by Jefferson Airplane
• Volunteers, the title song of the Airplane's Volunteers album
• Volunteers (film) a 1985 comedy film starring John Candy and Tom Hanks
• List of VFDs - "V.F.D." acronym in A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, with several meanings involving "Volunteer".
• Volunteer (band) - Ukrainian punk/metal band
• Volunteer Jam - annual Charlie Daniels Band concert in Nashville, Tennessee.
• Voluntary (music) a form of organ music.

Other

• Volunteer (botany), a desirable plant that grows on its own, rather than being planted.
• Volunteer Decoration - awarded to officers of the Volunteer Force in the British Empire
• Volunteer Examiner Coordinator any organization approved for the administration of U.S. amateur radio license examinations.
• Volunteers Spear Of Destiny album released in 2001

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