page_title: Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces
section_title: Functions
hierarchical_section_title: Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces / Functions
caption_attribution_description: Lietuvių: Šiuolaikinis Krašto apsaugos savanorių pajėgose tarnaujantis karys
context_page_description: The National Defence Volunteer Forces or NDVF is an important part of the Lithuanian Armed Forces. Volunteer forces were officially established on 17 January 1991 by the law of the Supreme Council of Lithuania on the National Defence Volunteer Service providing basis for establishing Voluntary National Defence Service. This decision made legal already existing volunteer formations that began appearing as early as 1990. Voluntary National Defence Service was reorganised into the National Defence Volunteer Force. In 2003 Volunteer Force was integrated into the Lithuanian Land Force. Tasks of volunteer soldiers were inevitably altered when Lithuania became a full-fledged member of NATO: approach of territorial defence was changed into territorial defence and training of modern active reserve. There are around 5000 volunteers and around 800 professional soldiers in the force.
context_section_description: Tasks of NDVF are training volunteers and other members of active reserve, units of NDVF for conducting territorial and collective defence tasks, preparing and participating in international operations, guarding important objects of defence infrastructure, state and municipal administration, and render assistance in case of natural disasters and catastrophes.
  provide trained personnel for regular units of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, by transferring them to a higher readiness level or deployment to multinational operations;
  prepares specialists of various fields and infantry units of up to company size for international deployment;
  participates in providing host nation support to NATO or the Allied forces;
  conducts peacetime tasks defined in legislation;
  plans and conducts warfare training of volunteer soldiers;
  develops cooperation with corresponding organisations in other countries regarding matters of warfare training of NDFV;
  provides support for governmental and municipal institutions according to the order set by legal acts;
  performs tasks of guarding vital objects of defence infrastructure, state and municipalities;
  represents Lithuanian Armed Forces in the community: strengthens connection between the community and the armed forces, organises and conducts military patriotic education of youth, maintains close relations with local community, participates in public life, festivals and events within its scope;
  is responsible for delivering technical provision and supplies for subordinate units, controls consumption of supplies;
  organises maintenance, and effective and economical usage according to the purpose of the NDVF military and other equipment and other assets;
  trains soldiers of NDVF and provides them with appropriate service conditions;
  Performs other functions related to the tasks of NDVF if so designated by laws or other legal acts.
caption: A soldier of the Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces
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