Volunteer (disambiguation)

Volunteer (disambiguation)

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

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

hips

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

ports

*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 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.

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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