The Republic Volunteer Army was a formation of non-clone soldiers who fought for the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars, along side the Grand Army of the Republic. The Army was made up of primarily Human volunteers, and consisted of some five million members at it's height. It had sour relations with the Grand Army, whose members viewed non-clone volunteers to be useless attention-seekers. The effectiveness of the Volunteer Army varied. Troops of the Army won several battles against the Confederacy of Independent Systems without support of the Grand Army, but in other cases, entire battalions deserted or defected to the Separatists.