A Civil Affair

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THAYER occasionally putting a hand on him, lean- The scenario is one of five presented Basham and her team use real-life ex- Stars and Stripes ing across, touching more than normal. to small groups of soldiers at Fort Hood, amples of sexual harassment and assault, Sgt. 1st Class Crystal Basham, the lead Texas, at the 1st Cavalry Division’s SHARP and role-play how to intervene. FORT HOOD, Texas — The training sexual assault response coordinator for 360 facility — an interactive training center In the bar scene, “we focus on male- begins with a bar scene. Two male soldiers on-male assault, because when we ask act out a night of celebrating a promotion, the 1st Cavalry Division, pauses the scene opened in April 2018 as an alternative to the males, ‘What do you do on a daily basis to but one soldier is feeding shots to the other to ask whether anyone would step up and standard training mandated by the Army’s ensure you’re not sexually assaulted?’ we while just sipping a beer. The sober soldier stop this. What if the drunken soldier were Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and begins getting closer to his drunken friend, a woman? Prevention program, known as SHARP. SEE ARMY ON PAGE 3 PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 24, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Military rates Switzerland (Franc) ...........................0.9049 Huawei sales up, but growth slows under virus Euro costs (Oct. 26) ..............................$1.16 Thailand (Baht) .................................... 31.27 Dollar buys (Oct. 26) ............................€0.82 Turkey (New Lira) ..............................7.9664 British pound (Oct. 26) ........................$1.27 (Military exchange rates are those Associated Press ters was down from the 13.1% com equipment maker ZTE Japanese yen (Oct. 26) ......................102.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (Oct. 26) ..........1,107.00 reported for the first half of the Corp., video service TikTok and Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance BEIJING — Chinese tech giant for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Bahrain (Dinar) ...................................0.3767 year. messaging app WeChat. Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For Huawei, one of the biggest mak- British pound ....................................$1.3065 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., Huawei is struggling with U.S. The conflict has fueled fears Canada (Dollar) ..................................1.3144 ers of smartphones and switching purchasing British pounds in Germany), sanctions that cut off its access to the global market might be di- China (Yuan) .......................................6.6779 check with your local military banking equipment, said Friday its rev- Denmark (Krone) ...............................6.2857 most American components in a viding into competing U.S. and facility. Commercial rates are interbank enue rose 9.9% in the first nine Egypt (Pound) ...................................15.7096 feud with Beijing over technology Chinese technology spheres with Euro .......................................$1.1838/0.8448 rates provided for reference when buying months of this year, but growth and security. The White House incompatible standards. Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................7.7505 currency. All figures are foreign currencies decelerated in the face of U.S. Hungary (Forint) ................................308.59 to one dollar, except for the British pound, says Huawei is a threat and might Industry analysts warn that Israel (Shekel) .................................... 3.3747 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, sanctions and the coronavirus facilitate Chinese spying, which would slow down innovation and Japan (Yen) .......................................... 104.78 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) pandemic. the company denies. raise costs. Kuwait (Dinar) ....................................0.3056 INTEREST RATES Norway (Krone) ..................................9.2489 Huawei Technologies Ltd. gave Washington also is tightening Executives have warned Philippines (Peso) ................................48.42 Prime rate ................................................3.25 no sales figure for the most recent curbs on access to U.S. markets Huawei’s smartphone and net- Poland (Zloty) .........................................3.88 Discount rate .......................................... 0.75 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ..........................3.7505 Federal funds market rate ...................0.09 quarter ending in September, but or technology for other Chinese work equipment sales would be Singapore (Dollar) .............................1.3588 3-month bill .............................................0.09 growth for the first three quar- tech companies including tele- affected. South Korea (Won) ..........................1131.22 30-year bond ...........................................1.67 WEATHER OUTLOOK SATURDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SATURDAY IN EUROPE SUNDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 54/49 Kabul 73/46 Seoul 58/38 Baghdad 92/63 Kandahar 67/33 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 65/42 63/45 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 59/45 54/50 60/45 Iwakuni 65/54 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 84/81 Brussels 58/53 Guam 86/67 62/53 Ramstein 65/54 86/79 Lajes, 58/51 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 85/61 88/66 65/51 60/50 62/44 Aviano/ Vicenza 60/53 Naples 64/61 Okinawa Morón 76/73 70/50 Sigonella Rota 73/54 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 91/74 66/60 72/66 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ............ 11 Books .............................. 13 Comics ............................. 18 Crossword ........................ 18 Entertainment .............. 14-15 Health and Fitness ............16 Opinion ............................ 17 Sports ......................... 19-24 Video Games .....................12 Saturday, October 24, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 MILITARY Assault case against top military official OK’d Associated Press fense Forum at the Ronald Rea- to Nebraska, where STRATCOM istan. Her assault and sexual bat- her career and eventually forcing gan Presidential Library in Simi is based. tery lawsuit alleged that while her retirement. LOS ANGELES — A federal Valley, northwest of Los Angeles. A phone call and email seek- judge on Thursday refused to dis- staying at a hotel during the Simi Spletstoser reported the allega- At the time, Hyten commanded ing comment from Hyten or his Valley trip, Hyten grabbed her, tions after Hyten’s nomination. miss a lawsuit alleging the vice the United States Strategic Com- lawyers were not immediately chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs kissed her, fondled her buttocks She told the AP last year that she mand, known as STRATCOM. returned. and rubbed himself against her. decided she couldn’t live with the of Staff sexually assaulted a for- The Associated Press generally However, Hyten, who was con- The lawsuit was amended from idea that Hyten might assault mer top aide during a Southern does not identify victims of al- firmed last September as the an original complaint that alleged someone else if he was confirmed California trip. leged sexual assault. But Splets- nation’s second-highest-ranking Air Force Gen. John Hyten has toser has allowed her name to be military officer, flatly denied Hyten sexually assaulted her at for the job. denied the allegations brought used. Spletstoser’s claims during his least nine times in 2017, including The Air Force investigated the by former Army Col. Kathryn Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald in confirmation hearing. during trips to California, Lon- woman’s allegations and found Spletstoser that he attacked her Los Angeles rejected defense mo- Spletstoser served in the Army don, South Korea and elsewhere there was insufficient evidence to during a December 2017 trip to tions to dismiss the case for lack for 28 years and carried out four and that he retaliated against for charge the general or recommend attend the Reagan National De- of jurisdiction or to move the case combat tours in Iraq and Afghan- refusing his advances by harming any administrative punishment. Army: Fort Hood soldiers given mock scenarios to learn awareness and trust FROM FRONT PAGE hear them say they don’t really ‘ We do have some think about it,” Basham said. significant issues to Most male soldiers say they pro- vide the women in their lives a tackle here at Fort list of ways to protect themselves. Hood. “We ask, ‘Why don’t you do this ’ for yourself?’ ” Maj. Gen. John Richardson IV This lesson is reinforced dur- U.S. Army ing scenes that

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