FACES MILITARY OLYMPICS A look at notable Taliban press Biles takes bronze videos from 40 ahead with gains in in balance beam years of MTV south Afghanistan in her return Page 14 Page 5 Page 24 Landlords and tenants fill courts as eviction moratorium ends ›› Page 6 stripes.com Volume 80 Edition 78 ©SS 2021 WEDNESDAY,AUGUST 4, 2021 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas VIRUS OUTBREAK Carl Vinson strike group deploys with F-35C fighters BY WYATT OLSON Stars and Stripes The USS Carl Vinson and its strike group steamed from San Diego on Monday, marking the first time that a carrier strike group is deploying with F-35C Lightning II fighter jets and Navy CMV-22B Osprey aboard, the Na- vy said. The carrier completed a 17- month upgrade late last summer so it could support F-35s, the new- est generation of fighter jet, as well as Ospreys, the tiltrotor air- craft that can land vertically like a helicopter and fly like a fixed- wing plane. The fifth-generation F-35C is the carrier version of the stealth fighter that costs $94.4 million each, according to the Navy. Air superiority is its role. The CMV-22B Osprey is the replace- ment for the fixed wing C-2A Greyhound, a logistics workhouse that delivers people, mail and car- ROGELIO V. SOLIS/AP go from shore to ship. Timontre Graham, 21, a senior at Jackson State University and defensive lineman with the school’s football team, receives his COVID-19 The strike group trained near vaccination at the Rose E. McCoy Auditorium on the Jackson State University campus in Jackson, Miss. the Hawaiian Islands for two weeks in June at the same time the Russian navy held a massive exer- cise in nearby waters that includ- ed targeting a mock carrier strike US hits 70% vaccination rate group with missiles. The ships and aircraft deployed as Carrier Strike Group 1 include the Carl Vinson; nine squadrons of Country reaches Biden’s goal a month late and amid a surge in cases by delta variant Carrier Air Wing 2; the guided- missile cruiser USS Lake Cham- BY MIKE CATALINI the country. ties and states likewise moved to RELATED plain; and six guided-missile de- Associated Press In a major re- reinstate precautions to counter a stroyers of Destroyer Squadron 1. The United States on Monday fi- treat in the Deep crisis blamed on the fast-spread- ■ Virus continues Those destroyers are USS Hig- nally reached President Joe Bi- South, Louisiana ing variant and stubborn resist- gins, USS O’Kane, USS Chafee, den’s goal of getting at least one ordered nearly ance to getting the vaccine. to shadow Olympics USS Dewey, USS Stockdale and COVID-19 shot into 70% of Amer- everyone, vacci- “As quickly as we can discharge USS Michael Murphy. ican adults — a month late and nated or not, to them, they’re coming in and ■ China orders mass The deployment of the strike amid a fierce surge by the delta wear masks they’re coming in very sick. We group, which is manned by more Biden variant that is swamping hospitals again in all in- started seeing entire families testing in Wuhan than 7,000 sailors, is “in support of and leading to new mask rules and door public settings, including Page 12 mandatory vaccinations around schools and colleges. And other ci- SEE GOAL ON PAGE 13 SEE DEPLOY ON PAGE 5 PAGE 2 • STARS AND STRIPES • Wednesday, August 4, 2021 BUSINESS/WEATHER Settlement addresses issues at Victoria’s Secret EXCHANGE RATES Military rates South Korea (Won) 1,152.07 Associated Press occurs, Oregon Attorney General personal ties with pedophile Jef- Switzerland (Franc) .9039 Euro costs (Aug. 4) $1.16 Thailand (Baht) 33.02 SALEM, Ore. — Oregon officials Ellen Rosenblum and Treasurer frey Epstein, and ignored a wide- Dollar buys (Aug. 4) 0.8203 Turkey (New Lira) 8.4358 British pound (Aug. 4) $1.36 believe a $90 million settlement it Tobias Read said in a statement spread culture of sexual harass- Japanese yen (Aug. 4) 107.00 (Military exchange rates are those available has reached with the parent com- sent by email Monday. ment at the company, the two Ore- South Korean won (Aug. 4) 1,123.00 to customers at military banking facilities in the Commercial rates country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Ger­ pany of Victoria’s Secret guaran- It also releases former employ- gon officials said. many, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Bahrain (Dinar) .3770 For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., pur­ tees an end to its “culture of ha- ees from non-disclosure agree- “By allowing a pattern of sexual Britain (Pound) 1.3887 chasing British pounds in Germany), check with Canada (Dollar) 1.2573 your local military banking facility. Commercial rassment and fear.” ments, allowing them to speak misconduct, bullying and retalia- China (Yuan) 6.4662 rates are interbank rates provided for reference publicly about their experiences. tion to go unaddressed, the board Denmark (Krone) 6.2665 Under the settlement, Victoria’s Egypt (Pound) 15.7004 when buying currency. All figures are foreign Secret and Bath & Body Works, The settlement is on behalf of of directors of L Brands failed to Euro .8425 currencies to one dollar, except for the British Hong Kong (Dollar) 7.7777 pound, which is represented in dollars­to­ owned by L Brands Inc., each com- the Oregon Public Employees Re- act in the best interests of stock- Hungary (Forint) 299.85 pound, and the euro, which is dollars­to­euro.) Israel (Shekel) 3.2153 mitted to invest $45 million over at tirement Fund and other sharehol- holders,” Rosenblum said. “The Japan (Yen) 108.91 INTEREST RATES least five years to protect employ- ders who alleged that L Brands’ days of promoting a culture of si- Kuwait (Dinar) .3004 Norway (Krone) 8.8394 Prime rate 3.25 ees from harassment and discrim- board of directors failed to investi- lent harassment and fear are over Philippines (Peso) 49.70 Interest Rates Discount rate 0.25 Poland (Zloty) 3.84 Federal funds market rate 0.09 ination and require accountability gate former CEO and Chairman at Victoria’s Secret and other L Saudi Arabia (Riyal) 3.7503 3­month bill 0.05 from executives when misconduct Emeritus Leslie Wexner’s close Brands companies.” Singapore (Dollar) 1.3525 30­year bond 1.85 WEATHER OUTLOOK WEDNESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEDNESDAY IN EUROPE THURSDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 78/72 Kabul Seoul 91/59 89/74 Baghdad 114/84 Drawsko Osan Tokyo Kandahar Mildenhall/ 93/73 88/73 Pomorskie Busan 101/64 Lakenheath 66/54 70/52 84/78 Iwakuni Kuwait City 82/79 Bahrain Zagan Sasebo Guam 112/89 97/92 Brussels Ramstein 68/59 66/56 68/55 85/79 84/81 Riyadh Lajes, Stuttgart 109/78 Doha Azores Pápa 72/69 65/55 112/87 Aviano/ 72/65 Vicenza 72/63 Naples 89/70 Okinawa Morón 83/80 96/66 Sigonella Rota 104/73 The weather is provided by the Djibouti 83/62 Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 99/83 87/80 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. TODAY IN STRIPES American Roundup ...... 11 Classified .................... 13 Comics .........................15 Crossword ................... 15 Faces .......................... 14 Opinion ........................ 16 Sports .................... 17-24 Wednesday, August 4, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 3 MILITARY Leaders: Focus on what Navy needs to compete BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS Monday at the ments. will require a change in what the third of our subsurface and sur- Stars and Stripes Navy League’s The Navy feels a “sense of ur- military buys — and urged indus- face fleet [will] be unmanned,” WASHINGTON — Top military Sea-Air-Space gency” against a rising China, and try leaders to back those needs. Milley said. “Additionally, about commanders on Monday urged conference — the service has been working to “It isn’t about how much money 40-60% of future Air Force air defense industry leaders to con- the first in-per- “move the needle in a bureaucra- we’re spending — it’s what we’re wings and squadrons will be ro- centrate on the new weapons and son major naval cy that’s not really designed to spending it on, and how it reflects botic pilotless.” ships that the Navy needs to com- conference since move very fast,” Gilday said. To the operating environment of to- Milley predicted a country that pete with rival nations such as the start of the do so, he said, the service must morrow,” Milley said. “In the can master those technologies Gilday China and Russia. coronavirus work with industry leaders. joint force, we have prioritized could have a decisive advantage Adm. Mike Gilday, chief of na- pandemic. “It really isn’t in a bud- “This is about the prosperity of nuclear modernization, long- in the next war. val operations, requested that the get-constrained environment.” this country, the economic securi- range fires, hypersonic technolo- “There are very few things as defense industry stop lobbying In the proposed 2022 Navy bud- ty of this country, the national se- gy, artificial intelligence, ship- expensive as preventing a war, Congress to build equipment the get, service leaders call for can- curity of this country,” Gilday building, microelectronics, space, but there are two that are more Navy no longer wants and “be a celing one of two guided-missile said. “It’s going to take a new ap- cyber and 5G as the top-tier tech- expensive: One is fighting a war, bit more agile in pivoting to new destroyers planned for 2022 and proach in terms of what we build, nologies we want to fully devel- and the most expensive of all is technologies and new platforms.” speeding the divestment of F/A-18 how we build it and the timelines op.” fighting and losing a war,” he “Although it’s in industry’s best Hornet fighter jets.