The Volunteers

A organization within New Light made of people who volunteer to fight against the horrors born from Day X. Some volunteers fight in order to return things to the way it was, or possibly out of patriotism for their land. Others are criminals that as the character puts it "to show their worth to society".

As you explore the island, you come to find you are not the only volunteer on the island, though likely to be the only living one. Exploring the island you find many volunteers who have met their end at the horrors of the island. In structures, in the wilderness, or simply in dark corners you fight the bodies of these volunteers.

The trader at Oasis claims that they do not get many volunteers around there, meaning either many volunteers die before reaching Oasis, never hear of it before dying, or possibly went no where near Oasis before dying. The few that did reach Oasis are never seen, possibly one of the many dead.

Theres a few bodies in The P.I.T.

Few bodies of Volunteers in the Hospital.

Trivia: Its currently unknown as to how many volunteers were deployed to the island, though the number of bodies you find shows that few have likely survived first encounters with the islands horrors, or were eventually overcome by them.

A oddity that would later be explained is why the New Light soldiers on the island fire upon and attack the volunteer even though they are technically on the same side.

Its unknown if the volunteers are a official branch of the military, or a form of citizen militias deployed to the island.