On May 27, the day the number of confirmed deaths in the United States attributed to COVID-19 topped 100,000, the U.S. military posted an equally stunning statistic.

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, of its 1.2 million active-duty troops, only one had succumbed to the deadly virus.

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