Executive Summary
The American Volunteer Reserve (AVR), with national headquarters in Southern California, is a military and veterans service and support organization. Our members are retired and former officers and NCOs of all branches of the armed forces, as well as non-prior-service patriotic citizens – men and women – possessing special skills that contribute to mission fulfillment.
We operate along a traditional military cadre structure. We have trained uniformed regularly-drilling volunteer reservists who make up our Headquarters elements, Honors Detachments, Communications Detachments, Medical Companies and General Support Battalions. We have members who support military funeral honors . AVR troops are regularly detailed for local, regional and national military and veterans commemorations, parades and color guard duties. During times of natural or man-made disasters, AVR services include medical and other emergency response teams to serve the public in any regard necessary. We also assist with communications, chaplain services, crowd control, mounted units and private aircraft for search and rescue, engineer units, public affairs and administrative support.