Volunteer (disambiguation)
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Volunteer or Volunteers 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 organisation
- 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 - 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
- List of IRAs - Successors of the original IRA still refer to members as "Volunteers"
- Ulster Volunteers - British loyalist militia founded 1912
[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
- Volunteer Canteen - pub in Liverpool, England
[edit] Sports
- The Volunteers (or Vols) - nickname of the University of Tennessee sports teams
- Volunteer State Athletic Conference - defunct Tennessee college conference
- Volunteer 500 - NASCAR Race now called Sharpie 500 for sponsorship reasons
[edit] Humanities
- Volunteers (album), a 1969 album by Jefferson Airplane
- 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.
[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.