MILITARY FACES AUTO RACING Pentagon office: Absentee ‘Unhinged’ debuts At eerily quiet track, voting for troops could be as box office gets 1st Takuma Sato grabs more complicated this year big test of virus era 2nd Indy 500 victory Page 5 Page 14 Back page Republicans formally nominate Trump to take on Biden in fall » Page 10 stripes.com Volume 79, No. 92 ©SS 2020 Tuesday, August 25, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas VIRUS OUTBREAK JOEL REYNOLDS/U.S. Army A faded portrait of Army 1st Lt. Weston Lee that hung in the fieldhouse at Camp Taji, Iraq, is going home with the Americans. As Camp Taji is handed to Iraqis, memorial murals are documented BY CHAD GARLAND Stars and Stripes The U.S.-led coalition formally transferred Camp Taji near Bagh- dad, handing over to the Iraqi se- curity forces nearly $350 million SETH ROBSON/Stars and Stripes in equipment and property, in- cluding blast walls once painted Air Force Tech. Sgt. Liezel Cabusao, 33, walks her son, Cayden, 6, to class with help from Yokota West Elementary School teacher with murals honoring military Kristin Pine, right, on Monday at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo. units and fallen comrades. A small number of remaining coalition troops at the base will depart soon, after finalizing the transfer of some $10 million in excess property, about $13 mil- lion in base improvements and A new learning curve nearly $325 million in vehicles, weapons, clothing, equipment, First day at DODEA’s overseas schools looks different amid pandemic ammunition, medical supplies and spare parts, the coalition said in a statement on Sunday. BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS dition-Charlie in military terms, are RELATED Many of the more than two Stars and Stripes holding class remotely under a policy dozen tributes, some painted on Declan Land, 6, wears set by the Department of Defense South Korea warns concrete “T-walls” over 10 feet a Venom mask on his The first day of school on U.S. Education Activity for the new school lockdown possible tall, had to be left in place, so first day of first grade military bases overseas took on the year. as virus resurges they were documented with pho- at Vogelweh Elementary trappings of a pandemic Monday as In the Pacific, that includes DODEA Page 6 tographs and painted over to pre- School in Germany. children bustled off to class in masks schools at Yokosuka Naval Base and vent vandalization or defacement, Parents were asked or logged on to meet their teachers the Army’s Camp Zama in mainland a separate statement said. Trump announces not to accompany their from home. Japan, as well on installations in Oki- But at least one — a faded por- plasma treatment children into the school Schools on a handful of bases with nawa, Guam and South Korea. trait honoring 1st Lt. Weston Lee, for health reasons. a substantial risk of the coronavirus authorized by FDA an infantry officer killed by an BRIAN FERGUSON/Stars and Stripes spreading, or Health Protection Con- SEE FIRST DAY ON PAGE 3 Page 7 SEE TAJI ON PAGE 4 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Tuesday, August 25, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9093 Account advertising COVID-19 parties deleted Euro costs (Aug. 25) .............................$1.16 Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 31.44 Dollar buys (Aug. 25) .......................€0.8234 Turkey (Lira) .........................................7.3726 British pound (Aug. 25) .......................$1.28 (Military exchange rates are those Associated Press The Arizona Republic. “We dis- ing large parties as students Japanese yen (Aug. 25) .....................103.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (Aug. 25) .........1,159.00 facilities in the country of issuance agree that the account infringes returned for fall semester classes Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the PHOENIX — Instagram has Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770 any trademark rights ASU might last week. Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For British pound .....................................$1.3086 deleted an account that claimed nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., have.” The lawsuit also alleged the Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3192 purchasing British pounds in Germany), to throw “COVID parties” at Ari- China (Yuan) ........................................6.9140 It is unclear who ran the ac- account engaged in the unau- check with your local military banking zona State University after the Denmark (Krone) ................................6.2929 count. ASU’s lawsuit names facility. Commercial rates are interbank thorized use of the university’s Egypt (Pound) ...................................15.9004 school sued Facebook and the “John Doe aka ‘asu_covid.par- rates provided for reference when buying trademark and school colors. Euro ........................................$1.1826/0.8456 owner of the account Thursday ties’ ” as the defendant alongside Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7504 currency. All figures are foreign currencies One alumnus threatened to cut Hungary (Forint) .................................296.87 to one dollar, except for the British pound, on allegations that the account Facebook. which is represented in dollars-to-pound, off support for ASU because the Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.4022 improperly used the school’s The university’s regents filed Japan (Yen) ...........................................105.80 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) logos and trademarks. a lawsuit in U.S. District Court person thought the account was Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3058 INTEREST RATES affiliated with the university, the Norway (Krone) ...................................8.9951 “We have removed the account Thursday. The lawsuit said the Philippines (Peso).................................48.52 Prime rate ................................................3.25 in question for violating our poli- account shared misinformation lawsuit said. The account also Poland (Zloty) ..........................................3.72 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7504 Federal funds market rate ...................0.09 cies,” a spokesperson for Face- about the coronavirus with stu- spread false information about Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3693 3-month bill .............................................0.09 book, Instagram’s owner, told dents and claimed to be throw- the university, ASU argued. South Korea (Won) ..........................1,187.93 30-year bond ...........................................1.35 WEATHER OUTLOOK TUESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST TUESDAY IN EUROPE WEDNESDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 77/71 Kabul 97/66 Seoul 94/80 Baghdad 105/75 Kandahar 103/75 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 93/78 84/73 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 67/59 70/59 87/80 Iwakuni 84/79 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 94/91 Brussels 68/56 Guam 106/83 72/59 Ramstein 88/81 84/81 Lajes, 79/47 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 106/83 107/84 73/70 70/53 76/62 Aviano/ Vicenza 75/60 Naples 85/71 Okinawa Morón 85/82 101/63 Sigonella Rota 90/68 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 103/86 83/64 81/72 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 11 Classified .................. 13 Comics ...................... 15 Crossword ................. 15 Faces ........................ 14 Opinion ..................... 16 Sports ...................17-24 Tuesday, August 25, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY First day: Students return to school with new guidelines FROM FRONT PAGE avoid getting too close to each Under DODEA-Europe, 58 other; instead of using drinking schools opened their classrooms fountains, they’re instructed to while retaining a remote option, carry water bottles. Video chats while six schools located in Bah- linked to classrooms replace rain, Spain and Ankara, Turkey, large assemblies. began the year with distance Still, students across Yokota learning due to health concerns. found familiar sights and tradi- The day was embraced with a tions. Parents, many in uniform, mix of excitement and trepida- walked their kids to class at Yo- tion by parents leaving their kids kota West and Joan K. Mendel at school for the first time in more elementary schools. than five months. Mendel students were wel- “We feel our kids are in good comed by chalk drawings around hands,” said Army Master Sgt. campus encouraging them to Faustin Desir, while dropping off “Have a great year!” and to his two children, in first and third “Make this year rock!” Parents grades, at Vogelweh Elementary watched outside the fenced-in School in Germany. playground as their kids stood But “as a parent, it is very dif- in line with their new classmates ficult, because of the unknown,” before filing inside. said Desir, who works for the 21st As a special treat at Yokota Theater Sustainment Command West, first-responders and base in Kaiserslautern. “This morn- ing, my wife and I, we prayed for firefighters waved the kids into our kids.” school. Rachel Byrd, the mother of While dropping off her 6-year- a second grader at Vogelweh, old son, Cayden Cabusao, Tech. said being at school will give her Sgt. Liezel Cabusao said opening daughter “the structure that she’s the schools makes sense, even used to … and a little sense of during the