Engineers, Singapore Armoured Car Company and 3 ambulance units. World War II File Singapore VolunteerForce training November 1941.jpg thumb right Volunteer troops training with a Lewis machine gun ... the SSVF. It included naval, air force, special operations , irregular military forces irregular units .... In 1954, the Singapore Volunteer Corps was absorbed into the Singapore Armed Forces Singapore Military ... more details
More footnotes date July 2011 The VolunteerForce was a citizen army of part time rifle, artillery and engineer ... are directly descended from VolunteerForce units. The British Army following the Crimea Following ... might be caught up in a wider European conflict. Creation of the VolunteerForce On 12 May 1859 the Secretary ... the early 1850s became the two senior rifle corps of the new force. These were the 1st Rifle Volunteer ... by some to exclude the lower classes. ref Hugh Cunningham The VolunteerForce 1975 ref Unlike ... to the report, as of 1 April 1862, the VolunteerForce had a strength of 162,681 consisting of 662 ... and instruction ref Report of the Royal Commission upon the VolunteerForce 3053 HC 1862 xxvii, 89 ... 1863 26 & 27 Vict. C.65 ref Part I of the Act dealt with the organisation of the VolunteerForce. It became ..., the VolunteerForce had become indispensable to British defence planning, as well as an enabler ... passed the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 , which merged the VolunteerForce with the yeomanry ... unit of the VolunteerForce until disbandment in 1920. Strength According to the Territorial Year Book 1909 , the VolunteerForce had the following strength over its existence ref Encyclopaedia Britannica ... 244,212 See also Portal British Army Category VolunteerForce officers Territorial Army United ... volunteers index.htm Research Press The VolunteerForce 1859 1908. Rifle Corps Histories. http www.coghlan.co.uk ... in 1881, before forming part of the Territorial Force in 1908. Most of the regiments of the present ... and despatch an effective expeditionary force to a new area of conflict, unless it was to reduce ... in England, Wales and Scotland, authorising the formation of volunteer rifle corps VRC, a.k.a. corps of rifle volunteers and rifle volunteer corps , and of artillery corps in defended coastal towns. ref War Office Circular, 12 May 1859, published in The Times , 13 May. ref Volunteer corps were to be raised under the provisions of the Volunteer Act 1804 44 Geo.3 c.54 , ref cite book last ... more details
Infobox Government agency agency name Michigan Volunteer Defense Force nativename nativename a nativename r logo logo width seal seal width seal caption formed 2004 preceding1 Michigan State Troops Home Guard 1917 30 June 1952 preceding2 Michigan Emergency Volunteers 1988 1998 dissolved superseding jurisdiction headquarters Lansing, Michigan employees 200 officers and enlisted members budget minister1 name minister1 pfo minister2 name minister2 pfo chief1 name Col. William R. Ewald chief1 position Brigade Commander chief2 name Lt.Col. O. Clayton Johnson chief2 position Chief of Staff parent agency Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs child1 agency 1st 7th Battalions child2 agency website http www.mivdf.org www.mivdf.org http michigan.gov dmva 0,1607,7 126 36614 ,00.html Michigan Dept. Military & Veteran Affairs Webpage footnotes The Michigan Volunteer Defense Force is a military force, duly constituted as a State Defense Forces state defense force and an element of Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs . The MI VDF was reorganized from the former Michigan ... to stand down in October 1998. Michigan Volunteer Defense Force On 20 September 2004 MG Thomas ... the reactivation of the new Michigan Volunteer Defense Force to undertake involvement in various ... the Michigan Volunteer Defense Force is organized as a state wide brigade with three regional commands ... staffing External links http www.mivdf.org Michigan Volunteer Defense Force Official Page http www.michigan.gov ... States Army colonel. History Michigan State Troops Michigan s first State Defense Force state defense force was established as the Michigan State Troops Home Guard along with the Michigan State Police Michigan State Troops Permanent Force in Act No. 53 Public Acts of Michigan on 17 April 1917. The Michigan ... of 1988 . The original intention for the MEV was to act as a force of trained emergency volunteers ... staff to review and discuss various opportunities for a state defense force to again serve within the state ... more details
Infobox Military Unit unit name Special Operations VolunteerForce image caption dates 1952&ndash 1960 country flag icon United Kingdom United Kingdom br flagicon Malaya Federation of Malaya branch type Counterinsurgency role size garrison ceremonial chief colonel of the regiment nickname motto colors march mascot battles Malayan Emergency notable commanders anniversaries File GOV 003823.jpg thumb Captured communist guerrillas like the ones pictured above, captured with their weapons trying to infiltrate a village under government protection, would be recruited by British and Malayan officials to form the Special Operations VolunteerForce. Given when photo was taken, it is possible that the people pictured were induced to surrender by an SOVF patrol. The Special Operations VolunteerForce was a special program developed by the British and Malayan authorities during the Malayan Emergency . The unit existed from 1952 until the end of the Emergency in 1960. Origins The Malayan Emergency began during the aftermath of the Second World War. As the British tried to repair the Malayan economy, the Malayan Communist Party , or MCP, was organizing protests against labor conditions in the country. ref Michael Morgan, The Rise and Fall of Malayan Trade Unionism, 1945 50 , in Mohamed Amin and Malcolm Caldwell, ed s, Malaya, The Making of a Neo Colony Nottingham, UK Spokesman Books, 1977 p. 165. ref As the protests became more effective, the British responded with harsher measures. This in turn caused the protesters to become more militant, culminating in the beginning of organized violence ... Operations VolunteerForce. ref Department of Defense,Office of Force Transformation, Network ... Special Operations VolunteerForce ... Emergency , Australia Monash University Press, 2008 p. 4. ref The Special Operations VolunteerForce, or the SOVF, came into existence in 1952. The program, although a military one, was controlled ... more details
Infobox war faction name Loyalist VolunteerForce LVF war The Troubles image caption active August 1996 ... area Northern Ireland strength unknown previous Ulster VolunteerForce 1966 Ulster VolunteerForce next allies Red Hand Defenders and dissident Ulster Defence Association UDA volunteers ref David ... Irish republicans , Irish nationalism Irish nationalists battles The Loyalist VolunteerForce LVF ... loyalist Billy Wright in 1996 when he and the Portadown unit of the Ulster VolunteerForce 1966 Ulster VolunteerForce s UVF Mid Ulster Brigade Mid Ulster Brigade UVF was stood down by the UVF leadership ... were Ulster VolunteerForce UVF volunteer Ulster loyalist volunteer s. The LVF has also killed ... days Billy Wright loyalist Billy Wright was the leader of the Mid Ulster Brigade of the Ulster VolunteerForce 1966 Ulster VolunteerForce UVF , ref name mult http www.findarticles.com p articles mi qn4156 ... responsible for the death ref which included 13 civilians 11 Catholics and 2 Protestants 3 Ulster VolunteerForce 1966 Ulster VolunteerForce members 1 former Provisional Irish Republican Army Provisional ... Of LVF Leader Billy Wright ISBN 1 84018 639 9 The Troubles Category Loyalist VolunteerForce ... Political schisms ca Loyalist VolunteerForce de Loyalist VolunteerForce es Fuerza Voluntaria Lealista eu Loialista Boluntarioen Indarra fr Loyalist VolunteerForce no Loyalist VolunteerForce sv Loyalist VolunteerForce ... Republican Army Provisional IRA volunteer, was killed. ref name Irish News Police believed that the disco itself was the intended target, rather than the ex volunteer. ref name Irish News Witnesses said ... on its ceasefire if the Provisional IRA did not begin decommissioning. 5 June LVF volunteer were blamed ... Archive on the Internet ref 2000 10 January LVF volunteers shot dead UVF volunteer Richard Jameson ... ref 26 May LVF volunteer shot dead UVF volunteer Martin Taylor 35 on Silverstream Park, Belfast ... more details
For the original Ulster VolunteerForce organisation of the 1910s Ulster Volunteers Infobox War Faction name Ulster VolunteerForce UVF war The Troubles image Image Uvf badge.jpg 150px caption The UVF ... republicans , Irish nationalism Irish nationalists battles The Ulster VolunteerForce UVF is a Ulster ... 1966 and named after the Ulster Volunteers Ulster VolunteerForce of 1913 . Its first leader was Gusty Spence , a former British soldier. The group s Volunteer Ulster loyalist volunteers undertook Timeline of Ulster VolunteerForce actions an armed campaign of almost thirty years during The Troubles ... History see also Timeline of Ulster VolunteerForce actions The 1960s The year 1966 marked the 50th ... calling itself the Ulster VolunteerForce issued a statement blockquote From this day, we declare ..., broke away to form the Loyalist VolunteerForce LVF . This development came soon after ... groups. Robin Jackson Larne Gun Running Loyalist VolunteerForce Red Hand Commandos Red ... Conflict Archive Use dmy dates date September 2011 The Troubles Category Ulster VolunteerForce ... Home Office designated terrorist groups ca Ulster VolunteerForce de Ulster VolunteerForce es Fuerza Voluntaria del Ulster eu Ulsterko Boluntarioen Indarra fr Ulster VolunteerForce ga glaigh Uladh hi it Ulster VolunteerForce he nl Ulster VolunteerForce no Ulster VolunteerForce pl Ulster VolunteerForce ru simple Ulster VolunteerForce fi Ulster VolunteerForce sv Ulster VolunteerForce uk ... Brigade Staff File Ulster Volunteer force.jpg thumb left Masked UVF Brigade Staff members at a press ... UVF volunteer Noel Nogi Shaw was killed by Lenny Murphy in November 1975 as part of an internal ... the covername Protestant Action Force PAF . Like the Ulster Defence Association UDA , the UVF s modus ... Page.61. ref blockquote On 27 May, four UVF men were sent to kill an IRA Volunteer Irish republican ... more details
merge to Combat 18 date November 2011 The Racial VolunteerForce RVF is a violent neo Nazi splinter group of the United Kingdom British neo Nazi group Combat 18 C18 with close ties to far right paramilitary group, British Freedom Fighters. Although originating as a breakaway group the RVF has since re established links to C18 whilst maintaining a distinct identity. ref name Metareligion article on Combat 18 http www.meta religion.com Extremism White extremism Combat 18 combat 18.htm Metareligion article on Combat 18 ref Formation The RVF emerged in 2002 after a split in C18. The long established extreme right group had entered a period of severe inactivity under the leadership of Will Browning, leading to a sense of frustration amongst activists keen to reignite activity. As a consequence a group of militants under the leadership of Mark Atkinson, a long term activist in C18, and John Hill, an Oldham based organiser, split to establish the RVF as a separate paramilitary organisation. ref State of the Right , Searchlight magazine Searchlight , January 2005, p. 12 ref The RVF claims to be part of an international organisation led by a Europe an Council and states that it aims for unity between all Nazism National Socialists and White nationalism white nationalists including Combat 18 in an alliance against the supposed Zionist Occupation Government . ref http www.rvforce.org about.html RVF site ref The group has garnered a reputation for its highly violent nature to the extent that other groups on the fringes of the British far right have sought to avoid being publicly associated with the RVF. ref name searchlightmagazine.com http www.searchlightmagazine.com index.php?link template&story 361 No unity so far for anti Griffin right ref Trial A few of the group s members were ... The Racial VolunteerForce ref According to Peter Davies, the Assistant Chief Constable of Lincolnshire Police the force making the arrests , it is difficult to imagine more extreme race hatred than ... more details
SLAF The Sri Lanka Volunteer Air Force SLVAF is the volunteer reserve element of the Sri Lanka Air Force . Its current mission is to provide trained personnel in support of the Sri Lanka Air Force , specifically No. 3 Squadron, SLAF Regiment and Airfield Construction Squadron. It is very similar to the Royal Air Force s Royal Auxiliary Air Force and the Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force of the Sri Lanka Navy . All officers and airmen who are commissioned or enlisted to the Volunteer Air Force has to undergo a specified training course to suite the SLAF requirements since they are a part of the staff of the SLAF. The duration and the nature of the training is determined by the Commander of the SLAF. History It was formed in 1971 vide Extraordinary Gazette No. 14, 953 18 dated 14 April 1971 by the Governor general . This was in response to the man power shortage faced by the air force in face of the 1971 JVP Insurrection Sri Lanka 1971 JVP Insurrection that started on 5 April 1971. The purpose of the Volunteer Air Force is to absorb personnel into the organization to fulfill urgent requirements ... tasks Volunteer personnel were employed almost in every field of Air Force activity, on flying duties ... Army VolunteerForce Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force Royal Auxiliary Air Force RAF Volunteer Reserve References Reflist External links http www.airforce.lk est vol.htm Sri Lanka Volunteer Air Force http www.airforce.lk hist hist1 h2c1p3.htm History of the Sri Lanka Air Force Category Sri Lanka Air Force Category Reserve forces of Sri Lanka ... force. Sqn Ldr J.T. Rex Fernando was the first Commanding Officer of the unit with Flt. Lt. Mani Seneviratne as his adjutant. At its conception the role of the VolunteerForce was essentially to assist the Regular Force in its primary and internal security duties. With more volunteers employed ... on operational and air transportation commitments since the outbreak of the insurrection. The Volunteer ... more details
255 Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force commemorates its 56th anniversary ref The current Commandant of the SLVNF ... SLN The mission statement of the Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force is cquote To supplement and to provide the Regular Naval Force with the required assistance in the execution of the role and tasks of the Navy ... of the Sri Lanka Navy lies with the history of the Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force, the roots of which go back to the Ceylon Naval VolunteerForce CNVF of the colonial days. The Ceylon Naval VolunteerForce CNVF was raised subsequent the Volunteer Naval Defense Force Act 1. of 1937 under the command of Commander Later Captain naval Captain W.G. Beauchamp, Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD , CBE with 12 officers and 18 sailors. The first headquarters of the force was set up only days before ... October 1943 it was renamed the Ceylon Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve . In 1946 it was brought back under the command of the Government of Ceylon . The Royal Ceylon VolunteerForce was sanctioned and formed ... of the Royal Ceylon Volunteer Naval Force RCVNF with a strength of 12 officers and 121 men. To keep ... in 1956. In 1972 when Sri Lanka became a republic the , Royal Ceylon Volunteer Naval Force became the Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force SLVNF . Since then officers and sailors of the SLVNF have taken part ..., VNF See also Sri Lanka Army VolunteerForce Sri Lanka Volunteer Air Force Royal Naval Reserve References reflist 2 External links http www.navy.lk index.php?id 5 Volunteer Naval Force http www.navy.lk ... sec process.php?chapterid 1956Y11V358C§ionno 5&title NAVY 20&path 3 Navy Act, Volunteer ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 The British Legion Volunteer Police Force was formed on the 6th October 1938. It was disbanded on the 15th October 1938, some ten days later. To set the formation of the British Legion Volunteer Police Force into context it is necessary to briefly mention the International affairs on the go at that time. The Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia was about to be claimed and annexed by the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and to this end Hitler had demanded the withdrawal of all Czech troops and police by the 1st October 1938. This alarmed the other European countries and after discussion Hitler Munich Agreement agreed to a Plebiscite controlled by an International Commission. Several plans were put forward which ended by the British Government authorising the British Legion in agreement with Hitler to organise a force of Legionaries to supervise the voting, and its anticipated transfer of the territory to Germany. External links http www.britishlegion northstaffs.org.uk history police force.htm British Legion Volunteer Police Force in the Royal British Legion in North Staffordshire s On line Museum http www.britishlegion northstaffs.org.uk history cap collardogs.htm Badge Exhibition at the Royal British Legion On Line Museum http www.legion memorabilia.org.uk cap badges police.htm British Legion Memorabilia Collectors Club British Legion Volunteer Police Force Category Defunct police forces of the United Kingdom UK law enforcement agency stub ... more details
Sri Lanka Army The Sri Lanka Army VolunteerForce SLAVF is the principal and Volunteer reserve force .... Overall administration and recruitment of reserve personal is carried out by the VolunteerForce Headquarters in Battaramulla, headed by the Commandant of the VolunteerForce , this is usually a Major General . The current commandant is Major General J. J. P. S. T. Liyanage. Volunteer officers undergo basic training at the Sri Lanka Military Academy and the other ranks at the VolunteerForce Training ... unit. The different units that emerged from the VolunteerForce were the, Ceylon Artillery Volunteers Ceylon Mounted Infantry CMI Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps CPRC Ceylon Volunteer Medical Corps ... coup in Ceylon, 1962 attempted coup in 1962 the post of Commandant of the VolunteerForce has since ... of the force was changed to Sri Lanka Army VolunteerForce. The current strength of the SLAVF is about ... cadet battalions came under the VolunteerForce until 1988 when the National Cadet Corps Sri Lanka ... National Guard 34th Sri Lanka National Guard 35th Sri Lanka National Guard VolunteerForce Training .... Karyakshama Seva Padakkama Since 1972 for other ranks. Sri Lanka Army VolunteerForce Centenary Medal Awarded on the 100th Anniversary of the VolunteerForce Efficiency Decoration Efficiency Decoration ... Silver Medalist Captain land and air Captain J.A.R. Felix Staff Officer, Ceylon VolunteerForce Headquarters ... Former Minister See also Sri Lanka Army Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force Sri Lanka Volunteer ... of Volunteer Corps in the island. It was designated the Ceylon Light Infantry Ceylon Light ... Force main Ceylon Defence Force In 1910 the name of the military was formerly changed to the Ceylon Defence Force CDF . It continued to grow throughout the early period of 20th century. The CDF saw ... Force traveled to England and joined the British Army , and many of them were killed in action ... http www.army.lk lightinfan.php Bot retrieved archive archivedate 2006 07 08 ref Army Volunteer ... more details
Onesource date January 2009 RAF The Royal Air ForceVolunteer Reserve RAFVR consists of a number of groupings of individual military reservists for the management and operation of the Royal Air Force s RAF Air Training Corps and CCF RAF Air Cadet formations, Volunteer Gliding Squadron s VGS , Air Experience Flights , and also to form the membership of University Air Squadron s RAFVR UAS and the Defence Technical Undergraduate Scheme RAFVR DTUS . Personnel involved in a training function of the RAFVR are commissioned into the Royal Air ForceVolunteer Reserve Training Branch RAFVR T for service with the Air Cadet Organisation . History The RAFVR was formed in July 1936 to provide individuals to supplement the Royal Auxiliary Air Force which had been formed in 1925 by the local Territorial Associations. The AAF was organised on a Squadron basis, with local recruitment similar to the Territorial Army Regiments. Initially the RAFVR was composed of civilians recruited from the neighbourhoods of Reserve Flying Schools, which were run by civilian contractors who largely employed as instructors members of the Reserve of Air Force Officers RAFO , who had previously completed a four year short service commission as pilots in the RAF. Navigation instructors were mainly former master mariners without any air experience. Recruits were confined to men of between 18 and 25 years of age who had been accepted for part time training as Pilots, Observers and Wireless Operators. The object was to provide .... A civilian volunteer on being accepted for aircrew training took an oath of allegiance ... order was raised for members of the Auxiliary Air Force, who retained their A s on uniforms at that time ... called up for Air Force Service with the RAF, both commissioned officers and other ranks, did so ... UAS and RAFVR DTUS are eligible in exactly the same manner as for members of the RAF s active volunteer ... Air Force Category 1936 establishments Category Royal Air Force ... more details
This is a timeline of actions by the Ulster VolunteerForce 1966 Ulster VolunteerForce UVF , a Ulster ... attacks claimed by the Protestant Action Force PAF , a covername used by the UVF. Most of these actions ... resulting in at least three deaths are marked in bold. TOC right 1960s 1966 7 May Ulster VolunteerForce UVF members petrol bomb ed a Irish Catholic Catholic owned pub on the Shankill Road , Belfast ... dedicated to this cause. 27 May UVF leader Gusty Spence sent four UVF men to kill an IRA volunteer ... house in Jordanstown . 14 April The UVF shot dead an Official Irish Republican Army Official IRA volunteer ... shot dead an Official IRA volunteer on Falls Road, Belfast. 21 July The UVF shot a Protestant civilian ... Action Force claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian in Newtownabbey . 11 October The Protestant Action Force claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian ... on Hightown Road, Belfast. 18 October The Protestant Action Force claimed responsibility for exploding ... . ref The Press Courier , 19 October 1974 ref 18 October The Protestant Action Force claimed responsibility ... Unionist Party . 27 October The Protestant Action Force claimed responsibility for shooting ... The Protestant Action Force claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian on Byron ... , 9 November 1974 ref 9 November The Protestant Action Force claimed responsibility for shooting dead two Catholic civilians in Templepatrick . 12 November The Protestant Action Force claimed responsibility ... Force claimed responsibility for a gun attack at Falls Bar in Aughnamullen, near Clonoe . A Catholic ... January The UVF claimed responsibility for shooting dead Provisional IRA volunteer John Francis Green ..., Belfast. ref McKittrick, p.530 ref 5 April The Protestant Action Force claimed responsibility for bombing ... Force claimed responsibility for shooting a Catholic civilian in Glencull near Aughnacloy, County Tyrone ... gang . 21 April The Protestant Action Force claimed responsibility for killing three Catholic civilians ... more details
The Niger Delta People s VolunteerForce http www.akumafiete.org is one of the largest armed groups in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria and is composed primarily of members of the region s largest ethnic group, the Ijaw people Ijaw . The group was founded in 2004 in an attempt to gain more control over the region s vast petroleum resources, particularly in Delta State . The NDPVF has frequently demanded a greater share of the oil wealth from both the state and federal government and has occasionally supported independence for the Delta region. Until 2005 the group was spearheaded by their presently incarcerated Citation needed date February 2010 charisma tic leader, Mujahid Dokubo Asari Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari , who is viewed by many Delta residents as a folk hero . Founding and initial conflict The NDPVF s strongly Ijaw people Ijaw agenda has led to conflict with both the Nigerian state and federal governments, as well as with neighboring ethnic groups, notably long time rivals the Itsekiri . This rivalry precipitated a number of conflicts in the region, centered primarily around the cities of Warri, Nigeria Warri and subsequently the oil capital of Port Harcourt . The issue of local government ward allocation has proven particularly contentious, as the Ijaw feel that the way in which wards have been allocated ensures that their superior numbers will not be reflected in the number of wards controlled by politicians of Ijaw ethnicity. Control of the city of Warri, the largest metropolitan area in Delta State and therefore a prime source of political patronage , has been an especially fiercely contested prize. This has given birth to heated disputes between the Ijaw, the Itsekiri and the Urhobo people Urhobo about which of the three groups are truly indigenous to the Warri region, with the underlying presumption being that the real indigenes should have control of the levers of power, regardless of the fact that all three groups enjoy ostensibly equal political rights ... more details
Refimprove date December 2011 RAF The Royal Air ForceVolunteer Reserve Training Branch , often abbreviated to RAFVR T is a voluntary element of the British Royal Air Force specifically appointed in a training role within the RAFVR . Members of the RAFVR T have no call up liability and often operate part time on Air Experience Flight s, Volunteer Gliding Squadrons , or more commonly in the local structure of the Air Cadet Organisation either the RAF Sections of the Combined Cadet Force CCF , or the Air Training Corps ATC . Recruitment and selection Many RAFVR T officers have previous military experience, commissioned, or other ranks service, and many have professional and educational qualifications, but unlike the requirements for joining the regular armed forces, applicants for RAFVR T positions are not required to have formal educational or other qualifications. It is also not uncommon to find RAFVR T staff hold commissions in the RAuxAF, RAFRO, or other services also. All the Pilots who man the Air Experience Flights AEF are former regular service aircrew RAF, Army or RN , some even at Air rank serving as supernumary Flying Officers RAFVR T adding much to the wealth and professional ... joining a Combined Cadet Force unit are recommended by the relevant headmaster and Section Commander ... bound youth work. Other members of the RAFVR T serve as flying instructors on the Volunteer Gliding ... Main Uniform of the Air Cadet Organisation RAFVR T members wear Royal Air Force uniform the same uniform worn by regular Royal Air Force or active reserve Royal Auxiliary Air Force commissioned officers .... Thus the RAFVR T follows the traditional dress regulation of the senior air force formation, the RAuxAF ... Royal Air Force badge. The RAF Motto is Per Ardua ad Astra Latin , which translates as Through Adversity ... RAF TEST sergeant s mapped to their specific school. Volunteer Gliding Squadron VGS and Air Experience ... Air Force Category Air Training Corps Category Air Cadet Organisation Category Air Cadet organisations ... more details
For the 1848 replica canal boat The Volunteer canal boat Infobox film name The Volunteer image TheVolunteerTradeAd.jpg image size 225px caption trade ad director Michael Powell director Michael Powell br Emeric Pressburger producer Michael Powell br Emeric Pressburger writer Michael Powell br Emeric Pressburger starring Ralph Richardson music Allan Gray composer Allan Gray cinematography Frederick Ford editing John Seabourne br Michael C. Chorlton distributor released film date 1944 1 10 df y runtime 24 minutes country Film UK language English budget gross The Volunteer 1944 is a short black and white Cinema of the United Kingdom British film by the filmmakers Powell and Pressburger Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger for the U.K. Ministry of Information. Made during World War II as recruitment propaganda for the Fleet Air Arm , volunteer numbers rose after its release. The films features actor Ralph Richardson starring in a West End theatre West End production of Othello . Pat McGrath actor Pat McGrath plays his dresser, who joins the Fleet Air Arm and becomes a war hero &ndash as famous as Richardson himself. British film stars Anna Neagle and Laurence Olivier make cameo appearance s, as does director Michael Powell and fellow British film director Anthony Asquith . External links http www.powell pressburger.org Reviews 43 Volunteer The Volunteer reviews and articles at the http www.powell pressburger.org Powell & Pressburger Pages IMDB title 0037439 Amg movie 120144 spacing, please do not remove Powell and Pressburger CinemaoftheUK Use dmy dates date September 2010 DEFAULTSORT Volunteer, The Category 1944 films Category Aviation films Category Black and white films Category British World War II propaganda films Category Denham films Category English language films Category Films by Powell and Pressburger Category British short films es The Volunteer ... more details
wiktionary Force The Force The Force or Force may refer to tocright Television and film The Force film The Force film , a 1994 American movie Force Star Wars Force Star Wars , a fictional concept in Star Wars media The Force Channel 4 television series The Force Channel 4 television series , a British television series on Channel 4 The Force ITV television series The Force ITV television series , an unrelated British television series on ITV The Force Behind the Line , an Australian documentary television series The Force advertisement , a 2011 television advertisement for Volkswagen s Passat Music The Force band , an American punk rock group The Force Kool & the Gang album The Force Kool & the Gang album , 1977 The Force Onslaught album The Force Onslaught album , 1986 Other uses Police force , the local law enforcement body Western Force , a rugby union team from Perth, Australia The Force , a nickname of snooker player Peter Ebdon See also Force disambiguation disambiguation it The Force ... more details
Wiktionary volunteerVolunteer or Volunteers may refer to Tocright Volunteerism Volunteering , the practice of people working on behalf of others without being motivated by financial or material gain Volunteers of America , U.S. religious group working in social welfare Military volunteer , in some countries ... countries this means a reservist originally unpaid, thus volunteerVolunteer Irish republican Volunteer ... Pennsylvania sometimes known as the Black Boys Rebellion. Volunteer Infantry , a military home defence force raised as part of the British anti invasion preparations of 1803 1805 VolunteerForce Great Britain , a British military home defence force from 1857 to 1908 Ships The Volunteer canal boat The Volunteer canal boat , a replica of a 19th century canal boat which operates on the Illinois and Michigan Canal at LaSalle, Illinois, in the United States USS Volunteer USS Volunteer , the name of more than one United States Navy ship Places Volunteer, North Carolina Volunteer Island , also called Starbuck Island, among the Line Islands of Kiribati Volunteer Park Seattle Volunteer Hotel , former pub in Balmain, Sydney, Australia Volunteer State Community College , community college located in Gallatin, Tennessee Sports Volunteer State Athletic Conference , a defunct Tennessee college conference Volunteer 500 , the original name of the Sharpie 500 NASCAR race Volunteer yacht , the winner ... album Volunteers film a 1985 comedy film starring John Candy and Tom Hanks Volunteer band , Ukrainian punk metal band Other Volunteer botany , a desirable plant that grows on its own, rather than being planted. Volunteer Decoration , awarded to officers of the VolunteerForce in the British Empire Volunteer Examiner Coordinator any organization approved for the administration of U.S. amateur radio license examinations. VoluntEARS , the term for Disney cast members who volunteer their time for charitable ... Volunteer Disambig de Freiwilliger es Voluntario ru ... more details
Infobox Military Award name Volunteer Officers Decoration image Image Volunteer Decoration UK ribbon.png caption Volunteer Decoration ribbon awarded by the United Kingdom type Military decoration eligibility Efficient and capable officers of the VolunteerForce Great Britain VolunteerForce for Military service of twenty years eighteen for those serving in India campaign status Superseded by the Territorial Decoration description clasps post nominals V.D. established 1892 first award last award 1907 total posthumous recipients individual higher same lower related Volunteer Reserves Service Medal image2 caption2 The Volunteer Officers Decoration was created by Royal Warrant under command of Queen Victoria on 25 July 1892 ref http www.gazettes.co.uk ViewPDF.aspx?pdf 26311&geotype London&gpn 4303 Volunteer Officers Decoration Warrant London Gazette 29th July 1892 ref to reward efficient and capable Officer armed forces officers of the VolunteerForce Great Britain VolunteerForce who had served for twenty years. In 1894 the decoration was introduced for officers of Volunteer Forces in India and the British Empire Colonies although in the case of India the length of qualifying service was reduced to eighteen years . Colonial and Indian officers were issued with different volunteer decorations from May, 1899. Their version had the letters VRI Queen Victoria Victoria Regina Imperatrix in place of the VR Queen Victoria Victoria Regina . The award of the Volunteer Decoration entitled the recipient to the use of the postnominal letters V.D. ref http www.gazettes.co.uk ViewPDF.aspx?pdf 33049&geotype London&gpn 3446 London Gazette 22nd May 1925 ref after their name. The award was superseded by the Territorial Decoration in 1908. See also Category Recipients of the Volunteer Decoration Sources http www.vac acc.gc.ca remembers sub.cfm?source collections cmdp mainmenu group11 vlsm Volunteer Long Service Medal Veterans Affairs Canada References reflist 2 Category Military awards and decorations ... more details
Expand section information about who publishes it date July 2007 Is it in Force? is the authoritative guide to the commencement of UK statutes from Halsbury s Statutes , published daily as an online service and twice annually as a paperback volume by LexisNexis Butterworths . It deals with every Public Act of Parliament , Measure of the Welsh Assembly , Act of the Scottish Parliament and General Synod Measure passed since 1960. However, annual Finance Acts are not dealt with in Is it in Force? because the commencement of provisions therein are generally stated clearly in the text of the provision concerned. Is it in Force? is designed to be used in conjunction with the Halsbury s Statutes Citator . See also Halsbury s Statutes Act of Parliament DEFAULTSORT Is It In Force? Category British law journals ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2008 A no force policy is used in transaction control in database theory . The term no force refers to the disk pages related to the actual database object being modified. With a no force policy, when a Database transaction transaction commits, the changes made to the actual objects are not required to be written to disk in place forced . A record of the changes must still be preserved at commit time to ensure that the transaction is durability computer science durable . This record is typically written to a sequential transaction log , with the actual changes to the database objects being changes which can be written at a later time. For frequently changed objects, a no force policy allows updates to be merged and so reduce the number of write operations to the actual database object. A no force policy also reduces the seek time required for a commit by having mostly sequential write operations to the transaction log, rather than requiring the disk to seek to many distinct database objects during a commit. Category Database management systems database stub ... more details
Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Force It Type Album Artist UFO band UFO Cover Force It cover.jpg Released July 1975 Recorded Morgan Studios , London Genre Hard rock Length 38 11 br 65 26 2007 Reissue Label Chrysalis Records Chrysalis Producer Leo Lyons Last album Phenomenon UFO album Phenomenon br 1974 This album Force It br 1975 Next album No Heavy Petting br 1976 Album ratings rev1 Allmusic rev1Score Rating 4 5 ref cite web url http www.allmusic.com album force it r51751 review title UFO Force It review accessdate 2011 07 20 last Rivadavia first Eduardo work Allmusic publisher Rovi Corporation ref rev2 Robert Christgau rev2Score B ref cite web url http www.robertchristgau.com get album.php?id 4077 title UFO Force It review accessdate 2011 07 20 last Christgau first Robert year 1987 publisher Robert Christgau ref noprose yes Force It is the fourth album by UFO band UFO , released in 1975. It became their first album to chart in the United States. The album was produced by Ten Years After bass player Leo Lyons . Another Ten Years After member, Chick Churchill , played Keyboard instrument keyboards , the first use of that instrument on a UFO record. The CD reissue was remaster ed at Sound Recording Technology, Cambridge in 1994. Album cover The somewhat controversial original cover was designed by Hipgnosis , as were almost all other UFO albums of the 1970s. For years, the genders of the couple in the bath were unknown, and the nudity was on the verge of decency ... of the band Throbbing Gristle . ref cite web url http www.ugo.com music ufo force it title Awesome ... magazine Billboard North America ref cite web url http www.allmusic.com album force it r51751 charts awards title Force It Billboard Albums accessdate 2011 07 20 work Allmusic publisher Rovi Corporation ... Albums produced by Leo Lyons Category Chrysalis Records albums es Force It lbum fr Force It it Force It pl Force It fi Force It sv Force It ... more details
Other uses Force disambiguation See also Forcing disambiguation File Force examples.svg 300px thumb Forces ... concepts Infobox Physical quantity bgcolour name Force image caption unit newton unit newton symbols F derivations nowrap F Mass m Acceleration a In physics , a force is any influence that causes ... construction. In other words, a force is that which can cause an object with mass to change ... deform . Force can also be described by intuitive concepts such as a push or pull. A force has both ... different, but equivalent terms the original version states that the net force acting upon an object ... and 9 2 of Feynman, Leighton and Sands 1963 . ref Related concepts to force include thrust , which ... glossary work Earth Observatory accessdate 2008 04 09 publisher NASA quote Force Any external agent ... antiquity used the concept of force in the study of statics stationary and dynamics physics ... errors in understanding force. In part this was due to an incomplete understanding of the sometimes non obvious force of friction , and a consequently inadequate view of the nature of natural motion ... Archive.org accessdate 2007 10 14 ref A fundamental error was the belief that a force is required to maintain motion, even at a constant velocity. Most of the previous misunderstandings about motion and force ... strength, they are strong force strong , electromagnetic force electromagnetic , weak force weak , and gravitational force gravitational . ref name texts High energy physics High energy particle physics ... Aristotle famously described a force as anything which causes an object to undergo unnatural motion Since antiquity the concept of force has been recognized as integral to the functioning of each of the simple machine s. The mechanical advantage given by a simple machine allowed for less force to be used in exchange for that force acting over a greater distance for the same amount of work physics ... who was especially famous for formulating a treatment of buoyant force s inherent in fluid s. ref name ... more details
About the military force other uses T Force disambiguation T Force was an elite British Army force which ... of the T Force were among the largest exploitation operations carried out by the allies. ref ...?id J1cyhzjUtMUC&pg PA63&dq 22T Force 22 2BBritain 2BGermany v onepage&q 22T Force 22 2BBritain 2BGermany ... Force SHAEF under General Dwight D. Eisenhower Eisenhower issued a directive to create T Forces soon ... . T Force units were attached to the three army groups on the Western Front World War II western front ... Army Group . The targets of the T Force were selected and recommended by the Combined Intelligence ...&lpg PA4&dq 22T Force 22 2BGermany 2BBritain 2Bmilitary 2Bscientists&source bl&ots jpTCiDbqza&sig GyVjaRHeF1o1XIzHYEwe81Kmrfg ... &f false accessdate 31 August 2009 ref T Force units were lightly armed and highly mobile. ref ... Target Force , normally referred to as T Force. Fleming sat on the committee that selected targets ... of the unit. The infantry component of T Force was formed by the King s Regiment Liverpool 5th Battalion .... Ian Fleming used elements of this story in his 1955 James Bond novel Moonraker . The story of T Force ... on the subject. ref T Force, The Race for Nazi War Secrets, 1945 by Sean Longden. Published by Constable & Robinson Sep 2009 ref Western front T Force units accompanied combat units when capturing industrial ... were removed. Once the T Force took control of a plant, CIOS would be informed of it, and investigators ... 0773528156 pages 109 110 url http books.google.lk books?id JDSsAAAAIAAJ&pg PA4&lpg PA4&dq 22T Force ... of the T Force was the seizing of Kiel on 4 May 1945. Allied troops had been ordered not to move north past Bad Segeberg by this time. However, a T Force group led by Major Tony Hibbert soldier ... was given in error, the T Force moved into Kiel unopposed, and took control of their assigned targets. A strong German force was present in the city, which was reluctant to surrender when asked by the T Force, until Admiral Karl D nitz instructed them to do so. ref Cite book title ... more details
Refimprove date December 2006 A military volunteer is a person who enlists in military service by free will, and is not a mercenary or a foreign volunteers foreign legionaire . Volunteers often enlist to fight in the armed forces of a foreign country. Military volunteers are essential for the operation of volunteer military volunteer militaries . Many armies, including the U.S. Army , formerly distinguished between United States Volunteers enlisted during a war, and Regular Army regulars who served on long term basis. Troops raised as state militia were always volunteers even when recruited by conscription , while U.S. troops could be volunteers or regulars. 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 should not be confused with Brevet military brevet rank. The move to a volunteer over conscription force for a national military appears to improve, at least for the United States , the professionalism of its standing armed forces. One result, however, is that a nation may be more quick to go to war because it does not have to answer to the public as it would if it needed to increase conscription to support the involvement in the armed conflict. ref Shear, Jeff, http www.miller mccune.com culture america in the hands of a professional military 30240 America in the Hands of a Professional Military , Miller McCune , 15 April 2011. ref See also Foreign volunteer External links Commons category Military volunteers Notes reflist DEFAULTSORT Military Volunteer Category Military ... more details
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