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((Short description|Person who enlists in military service by free will))
((More citations needed|date=December 2006))
((For|all-volunteer force|Volunteer military))
A '''military volunteer''' (or ''war volunteer'') is a person who enlists in [[military service]] by free will, and is not a [[conscript]], [[mercenary]], or a [[foreign volunteers|foreign legionnaire]]. Volunteers sometimes enlist to fight [[Foreign volunteers|in the armed forces of a foreign country]], for example during the [[Spanish Civil War]]. Military volunteers are essential for the operation of [[volunteer military|volunteer militaries]]. Many armies, including the [[U.S. Army]], formerly distinguished between "Important Volunteers" enlisted during a war, and "[[Regular Army|regulars]]" who served on long-term basis.

==United States==
((main|United States Volunteers))
In the United States troops raised as state militia were always described as "volunteers", even when recruited by conscription. Both US volunteers and regulars were referred to as "U.S." troops. The rank of an officer in a volunteer unit was separate from his rank (if any) as a regular, and usually higher. When the volunteer forces were disbanded at the end of the war, officers with both kinds of commission reverted to their "regular" rank. For instance, [[George Armstrong Custer]] became a [[Brigadier general (United States)|brigadier general]] of volunteers during the [[American Civil War]], but when the war ended, he reverted to [[Captain (United States)|captain]]. (He was later promoted to [[Lieutenant colonel (United States)|lieutenant colonel]].) Volunteer rank is not the same as [[Brevet (military)|brevet]] rank.

<gallery heights="150" mode="packed" caption="Military volunteers">
File:Slovenskí dobrovoľníci.jpg|[[Slovakia|Slovak]] volunteers in the [[Slovak Uprising of 1848–49|Slovak Uprising]] of 1848-1849
File:German volunteers; raw recruits for the Greek forces, War of 1897.jpg|German volunteers for the Greek forces in [[Greco-Turkish War (1897)|Greco-Turkish War]] of 1897
File:Boer-war-volunteers from Finland&Scandinavia.jpg|Scandinavian Corps volunteers in [[Boer Commando|Boer Commando Army]] in the [[Boer War]] of 1899-1902
File:Cretan Volunteers 1912.jpg|[[Crete|Cretan]] volunteers in the [[First Balkan War]] of 1912-1913
File:HL Damals – Kriegsfreiwillige – 1914 – Katharineum.jpg|War volunteers of the [[Katharineum]] on 17 August 1914 ([[World War I]])
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Vrijwilligerskorps voor het clubgebouw van de rubberplantage Batang Toroe na afloop van schietwedstrijden TMnr 60021674.jpg|Dutch volunteers corps in [[Indonesia]] in 1918
File:Flying Tigers personnel.jpg|[[Flying Tigers]], American volunteers in war-torn [[WWII]] Japanese occupied-China from 1942-1944
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1994-107-05A, Ankunft Kriegsfreiwilliger auf Bahnhof.jpg|[[Panzer-Grenadier-Division Großdeutschland]] German volunteers arrive at train station, during [[WWII]], to fight on the [[Soviet Union|Russian]] [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]] in February 1944
File:Arab volunteers.jpg|[[Palestinian Arab]] volunteers in "[[Army of the Holy War]]" in 1947 fighting in the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]] during [[1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine|Palestinian Civil War]] of 1947-1948
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[Volunteer military]]
*[[Volunteer Force]], volunteer units in the 19th century British Empire
*[[Sar-El]], national project for volunteers for Israel
*[[SAF Volunteer Corps]], volunteer scheme for the [[Singapore Armed Forces]]
*[[Foreign involvement in the Spanish Civil War]]
*[[Corpo Truppe Volontarie]]
*[[Wehrmacht foreign volunteers and conscripts]]
*[[International Freedom Battalion]], units consisting of foreign fighters partaking in the war against the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]]
*[[Volunteering]] in a non-military context means working voluntarily without pay

== External links ==
((Commons category|Military volunteers))

==Notes==
((Reflist))

((Authority control))

((DEFAULTSORT:Military Volunteer))
[[Category:Military sociology]]
[[Category:Military volunteering| ]]
[[Category:Military recruitment|Volunteer]]

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