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United States Volunteers also known as U.S. Volunteers, U. S. Vol., or U.S.V. were military volunteers enlisted in the United States Army who were separate from the Regular Army. Currently the USV is an all volunteer, private non-profit, national organization dedicated to ensuring that every Soldier, Marine, Sailor, Airman, Coast Guardsman and Merchant Marine entitled to full military honors receives the honors deserved after serving the United States military. Their ranks are composed of both retired servicemen and servicewomen and patriotic civilians.

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  • United States Volunteers also known as U.S. Volunteers, U. S. Vol., or U.S.V. were military volunteers enlisted in the United States Army who were separate from the Regular Army. Currently the USV is an all volunteer, private non-profit, national organization dedicated to ensuring that every Soldier, Marine, Sailor, Airman, Coast Guardsman and Merchant Marine entitled to full military honors receives the honors deserved after serving the United States military. Their ranks are composed of both retired servicemen and servicewomen and patriotic civilians.
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  • United States Volunteers also known as U.S. Volunteers, U. S. Vol., or U.S.V. were military volunteers enlisted in the United States Army who were separate from the Regular Army. Currently the USV is an all volunteer, private non-profit, national organization dedicated to ensuring that every Soldier, Marine, Sailor, Airman, Coast Guardsman and Merchant Marine entitled to full military honors receives the honors deserved after serving the United States military. Their ranks are composed of both retired servicemen and servicewomen and patriotic civilians. Starting as early as 1861 these regiments were often referred to as the volunteer army of the United States but not officially named (codified into law) that until 1898. During the nineteenth century this was the United States federal government's main means for raising large forces of citizen-soldiers needed in wartime to augment the small Regular Army and organized militia and National Guard. The U.S. Volunteers were the forerunner of the National Army in World War I and the Army of the United States in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The U.S. Volunteers did not exist in times of peace. Unlike the militia, which, under the United States Constitution, each state recruited, trained, equipped, and maintained locally, with regimental officers appointed and promoted by state governors and not kept in federal service for more than nine months nor sent outside the country, the U.S. Volunteers were enlisted for terms of one to three years, and between 1794 and 1902 fought outside the country. Regiments and batteries became known as "Volunteers" to distinguish between state and regular army units.
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