The USV-JSC is an organization focused on augmenting the Regular and Reserve forces in two areas. First, the USV-JSC provides trained and uniformed volunteers who may be called upon to render final military honors to deceased veterans at national and local cemeteries. Second, the USV-JSC fills the gap when and where needed by proper authority in incidents of natural disasters.

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From Colonel Teddy Roosevelt, the First United States Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was organized by Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood, M.D. General George A. Custer.

General Custer was appointed major-general of volunteers April 15, 1865, and was brevetted a major-general of United States Volunteers for “gallant and meritorious services at the battles of Winchester and Fisher’s Hill, Virginia.”

Lt. General Arthur Macarthur. On June 1, 1898, MacArthur received notifi- cation of his appointment as brigadier general of volunteers. His assignment to the Philip- pines rather than Cuba came as a surprise.

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To provide a “seamless” military organization of volunteer retired and former service members and patriotic Ameri- can citizens to perform military final honors to the armed forces veterans of the United States of America; to com- pliment the national shortage of active and reserve forces available to perform military final honors; and, to provide a select pool of qualified manpower for use by the Secretary of Defense.