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WASHINGTON — A U.S. Marine in the Washington D.C.-area who recently returned from official travel overseas has tested positive for the coronavirus, the Pentagon said on Saturday, in what would be the third confirmed case among U.S. servicemembers and the first in the United States.

The other two U.S. troops who have tested positive are a sailor in Italy and a soldier in South Korea.

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Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement that the Marine was assigned to Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and was currently being treated at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital.

Fort Belvoir is a major base in suburban Virginia, not far from the Pentagon. The U.S. military did not disclose the Marine’s rank or say where the Marine had traveled.

Hoffman said Defense Secretary Mark Esper and the White House had been briefed.

A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Marine was a man and that his family was now on a 14-day quarantine. The U.S. military was working with state and local officials to trace contacts that the Marine had in the area.