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Furthermore, there is a high chance that a Marine in active service would have already received the rabies vaccine as prophylaxis: https://health.mil/Military-Health-Topics/Health-Readiness/I...

You still need to get the vaccine after getting bitten, pre-exposure prophylaxis just reduces the amount that you need afterwards.

> there is a high chance that a Marine in active service would have already received the rabies vaccine as prophylaxis

Then they wouldn't have developed rabies. There was no Marine who got rabies at Quantico from a raccoon in the 80s who recovered.