Several years ago I was in an Advanced Volunteer Administration Symposium on Boomers and older generations.
Still an active volunteer herself, Zola said her neighbors have turned into family.
Lord Coe told the BBC how a chance meeting with an Olympics volunteer proved to be a "seismic moment".
Teaching reading and writing is a complex undertaking, especially when the learner is an adult, and the educator is an untrained volunteer.
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And an effective volunteer program is only possible with smart volunteer management.
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"Obviously we're getting aftershocks so we've got to be prepared for those, " explained Phil Parker, an emergency volunteer with the New Zealand rescue services.
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Saskya Huggins, an OLH volunteer, said the response had been "phenomenal".
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Rather it came from an external volunteer army.
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The problem with an all volunteer force is too much of the citizenry shirks that responsibility, loses any sense of ownership in this country, and fails to learn the true meaning of loyalty and sacrifice.
"If we don't address this issue, we're going to have a shrinking number of young people who are qualified for military service, and when you have an all-volunteer military, you have to have a large pool to draw from, " he said in an interview following his speech.
However, today, with an all-volunteer force, fewer Americans serve or know someone who does.
An Arbroath lifeboat volunteer has been confirmed as the oldest RNLI crew member in Scotland.
There has been no active draft since 1973, when the military converted to an all-volunteer force.
The truth is this is an all-volunteer military and the people who are there signed up for it.
But we forgot that bringing an all-volunteer force into a protracted war hasn't happened since the American Revolution.
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During Jack's rescue, an Orange County volunteer deputy sheriff "sustained head trauma" after falling 60 feet, the sheriff's department lieutenant said.
We have never before in our history tried to wage a sustained global shooting war with an all-volunteer force.
It is wearing them out, threatening to break an all-volunteer force and to render wholly unsustainable its combat equipment.
Corporations who genuinely have an effective corporate volunteer program often earn a good reputation from stakeholders, media and the general public.
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But Canada's Conservative government has argued the situation has changed since the Vietnam era because the US military is now an all-volunteer force.
The American Cancer Society has an online employee volunteer community, where employees can sign up to drive fellow employees to colon cancer screenings.
"I don't know how you deal with that one, " added Stittleburg, who's also chief of the La Farge, Wisconsin, Fire Department, an all-volunteer agency.
Lee offered them an opportunity to volunteer for the infantry, then be placed in otherwise white units, without regard to a quota but as needed.
In contrast to the "command and control" ethos in effect in the military (and his company), this was an all-volunteer effort, with 100 people contributing.
Thames Valley Police is to recruit an extra 250 volunteer officers, but has denied it is policing on the cheap in the face of government cuts.
The Defense Secretary is rightly concerned about the ability of an all-volunteer force to continue to maintain the operational tempos that have characterized the past decade.
First, the U.S. military is an all-volunteer force, which means that service members freely choose to take on both the obligations and benefits of military life.
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Since the draft was dissolved in 1973 and the military was converted into an all-volunteer force, young adults no longer live with anxiety over the prospect of mandatory service.
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