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Female Soldier, 38, Is 3rd Active-Duty Service Member to Die of COVID-19 The U.S. flag sits atop a case containing remains on March 31, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jamarius Fortson) 7 Jan 2021 An Army soldier has become the third active-duty U.S. service member to die from COVID-19. Sgt. 1st Class Lisa Maria Soto, 38, an instructor with Alpha Company, 244th Quartermaster Battalion, at Fort Lee, Virginia, died Jan. 2 at a hospital in Hopewell, Virginia, not far from the base. A 20-year veteran, Soto completed two combat deployments -- to Iraq in 2005 and Afghanistan in 2011 -- and spe...

A Fort Lee instructor is the 15th service member, 2nd active-duty soldier, to die from COVID-19 A 15th service member has died from COVID-19. (Paul Sancya/AP) Sgt. 1st Class Lisa Maria Soto, 38, died Saturday at a civilian hospital near post, Fort Lee spokesman Jefferson Wolfe said. “Soto served honorably in the Army for more than 20 years, beginning as an armorer at the 95th Military Police Battalion from 2001 to 2004 in Mannheim, Germany,” Wolfe said, with a deployment to Iraq in 2004 and another to Afghanistan in 2011. At the time of her death, Soto was an advanced individual trai...

By Rebecca Kheel - 01/06/21 01:18 PM EST   A 38-year-old active-duty soldier in Virginia has died of COVID-19, the Army said Wednesday, marking the service’s second active-duty death during the pandemic. The fatality is also the third active-duty death across military branches and the military’s 15th overall when taking into account reserve forces. Sgt. 1st Class Lisa Maria Soto, originally from Florence, S.C., died early Saturday at a civilian hospital in Hopewell, Va., from complications related to COVID-19, Fort Lee spokesperson Jefferson Wolfe said in a statement Wednesday. ADVE...