Volunteer (disambiguation)
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Volunteer, Volunteers or Voluntary may refer to one of the following.
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[edit] Volunteerism
Volunteer, a person who performs or offers to perform a service out of his or her own free will, often without payment See also volunteerism 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:
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 IRAs - Successors of the original IRA still refer to members as "Volunteers"
Volunteer (Irish republican) - Member of Irish Republican Army
[edit] Ships
- See also: The Volunteer (canal boat)
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Humanities
Volunteers, a 1969 album by Jefferson Airplane Volunteers, the title song of the Airplane's Volunteers album Volunteers (film) a 1985 comedy film starting 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.
[edit] 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.
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