Volunteer troops usually are contrasted to conscripts not to professionals. The United States for example fields an all volunteer professional military ever since the end of the Vietnam war. Unpaid troops are usually militias, and they can be contrasted to professional troops. That said militias often provide stipends or some form of compensation.
Volunteers pay for themselves, that’s the core principle of volunteering. If you get paid for it it’s a very normal job.
They don’t get anything right over there, don’t they.
Volunteer troops usually are contrasted to conscripts not to professionals. The United States for example fields an all volunteer professional military ever since the end of the Vietnam war. Unpaid troops are usually militias, and they can be contrasted to professional troops. That said militias often provide stipends or some form of compensation.
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This feels so 1700s. Like the revolutionary war where the volunteers just kind of showed up with whatever they had.
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In this context, volunteer means signed up voluntarily, rather than drafted. They’re still paid.