United States Military

United States Military are the military forces of the United States of America. United States soldiers along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency enforce the law in the Quarantine Zones throughout the country and are amalgamated with one another. However, there are cases of civilians being drafted into working on the outside of numerous QZs alongside the soldiers.

The United States military is one of the last remnants of the United States federal government alongside Federal Emergency Management Agency and Center for Disease Control.

Early Outbreak
During the early outbreak, military forces and local law enforcement attempted to contain the outbreak. As Sarah watches a news report, a soldier in the background orders his men to leave the area due to a gas leak nearby. An explosion interrupts the broadcast before the newscaster can be warned. When Joel, Tommy and Sarah attempt to escape the infection, they witness that the military set up roadblocks along the highways, causing a large traffic jam.

The military also resorted to shooting civilians suspected of infection, including children; in one instance, a soldier reluctantly attempts to execute Joel and Sarah after being ordered to do so by his chain of command with only Joel surviving due to Tommy's intervention.[1] As social order collapsed, the remaining U.S. military forces were deployed into major cities and created massive quarantine zones to contain the masses and isolate the infection. The Air Force carpet-bombed the surrounding areas of some of the quarantine zones, significantly the downtown area of Boston, with the objective of killing as many of the infected as possible, while also creating buffer zones.[2] The military and FEDRA are later depicted as working together, possibly as the result of the former seizing control of the latter, or vice versa.

The Hunters Uprising
After martial law was declared and FEDRA took control of the government, Pittsburgh was designated as a military-controlled quarantine zone. Eventually, citizens became restless over a lack of rations, accusing FEDRA and the military of keeping food from them.[1] A revolution was instigated by the Fireflies, causing many citizens to rise up and participate in fighting which lasted for around 14 months, with the rebels killing more soldiers and taking more parts of the city as time went on.[2] Eventually, the military forces of Pittsburgh were defeated and driven out of the zone[3], with the rebels massacring any soldiers and military supporters that remained.[4] Anyone who refused to participate in the final battle was banished by the rebels.