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PACIFIC MILITARY MLB Fan of Korea vets Stuttgart, Vicenza Team owners move maps memorials for housing rated forward with plan for the forgotten war poorly in survey 60-game season Page 8 Page 4 Back page Official: Troops in Germany may be redeployed to Indo-Pacific » Page 3 stripes.com Volume 79, No. 48 ©SS 2020 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas VIRUS OUTBREAK US soldier accused of plot to attack his own unit BY WYATT OLSON Stars and Stripes A U.S. paratrooper charged with planning a “murderous am- bush” on his own unit by sending sensitive details to a satanic neo- Nazi group was serving with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, the Ar- my’s Italy-based rapid response force. Pvt. Ethan Melzer sent details about his overseas unit’s loca- tions, movements and security measures to members of an ex- tremist group named Order of the Nine Angles, intending it to be passed on to jihadi terrorists, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement Monday. Melzer, who an indictment said operated under the alias Etil Reg- gad, was charged with conspiring and attempting to murder U.S. na- tionals, conspiring and attempt- ing to murder service members, providing and attempting to pro- vide material support to terror- ists and conspiring to murder and maim in a foreign country. JAE C. HONG/AP “We’re reacting to it like every- A man with a face mask walks past a replica of the Statue of Liberty on Monday in Los Angeles. one else,” said brigade spokesman Maj. Chris Bradley on Tuesday, after he said officials notified the unit’s 3,500 paratroopers of the arrest and indictment. Since November, Melzer had been assigned to the 1st Battal- ‘It will be when not if’ ion, 503rd Infantry Regiment of the Vicenza-based brigade, which provides forces to U.S. European, Fauci remains ‘cautiously optimistic’ COVID-19 vaccine could be ready by end of year Africa and Central commands. Army officials arrested the in- fantryman May 30 at Caserma BY LAURAN NEERGAARD Dr. Anthony Fauci returned to and Human Services. Ederle, home of U.S. Army Gar- RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR AND Capitol Hill at a fraught moment in Since Fauci’s last appearance at rison Italy and U.S. Army Africa, Associated Press the nation’s pandemic response, with a high-profile hearing more than a Bradley said. coronavirus cases rising in about The FBI subsequently arrested WASHINGTON — The govern- month ago, the U.S. has been emerg- half the states and political polar- him on June 10, the DOJ said in ment’s top infectious disease expert ing from weeks of stay-at-home or- ization competing for attention with a statement, which praised vari- told a House committee on Tuesday ders and business shutdowns. But public health recommendations. it’s being done in an uneven way, ous government agencies, includ- he believes “it will be when and not ing the U.S. Army Africa staff Fauci testified along with the with some states far less cautious if” there will be a COVID-19 vaccine heads of the Centers for Disease judge advocate’s office and the than others. A trio of states with Re- and that he remains “cautiously opti- Control and Prevention, the Food brigade, for “outstanding efforts” publican governors who are bullish mistic” that some will be ready at the and Drug Administration and a top in thwarting a potential terrorist end of the year. Fauci official at the Department of Health SEE FAUCI ON PAGE 10 attack. SEE PLOT ON PAGE 6 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 24, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Starbucks adds plant-based meat to US menu Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9438 Euro costs (June 24) .............................$1.11 Thailand (Baht) .....................................30.90 Dollar buys (June 24) .......................€0.8607 Turkey (Lira) .........................................6.8563 British pound (June 24) .......................$1.22 (Military exchange rates are those BY DEE-ANN DURBIN batta bun. Beyond Meat crumbles in China. 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South Korea (Won) ......................... 1,206.56 30-year bond ...........................................1.46 WEATHER OUTLOOK WEDNESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEDNESDAY IN EUROPE THURSDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 60/57 Kabul 90/66 Seoul 74/68 Baghdad 102/80 Kandahar 107/73 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 75/69 79/68 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 81/59 71/52 74/70 Iwakuni 72/69 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 89/83 Brussels 64/51 Guam 106/87 82/60 Ramstein 75/72 84/81 Lajes, 74/56 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 102/80 101/78 64/61 74/55 70/55 Aviano/ Vicenza 71/64 Naples 82/65 Okinawa Morón 82/79 99/66 Sigonella Rota 84/62 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 99/84 82/64 74/66 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 14 Classified .................. 13 Comics ...................... 19 Crossword ................. 19 Faces ........................ 15 Opinion .................16-17 Sports .................. 20-24 Wednesday, June 24, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Troops may leave Germany for Indo-Pacific BY SETH ROBSON of the [Pacific] pivot announced Stars and Stripes by [President Barack Obama] back in 2011,” he said, refer- YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan ring to a policy of concentrating — Thousands of troops may be America’s military and diplomat- redeployed to the Indo-Pacific ic efforts in the Far East. under a plan to reduce U.S. forc- “What has been happening is a es in Germany, according to the lot of acceleration to deal with the White House’s national security rise of China and the attendant adviser. risks there are of tension and con- President Donald Trump an- flict in this region,” he said. nounced last week his intentions There’s a need to reinforce the of cutting troop levels in Germa- U.S. presence in the region to en- ny from 34,500 to 25,000. He said hance confidence in the U.S. and the country, where the U.S. has western allies generally, Babbage stationed troops since 1945, has said. shortchanged the United States “I don’t think we are talking on trade and defense, and that he about big numbers in short time will reduce troop numbers “until they pay” more. but it’s reasonable to include Aus- The move has been criticized tralia on a list of places where by lawmakers in Germany and in people might go,” he said, add- the United States, including mem- ing that such a move would likely bers of the Republican Party. have bipartisan political and pub- In a commentary published lic support in Australia. Monday in the Wall Street Jour- Moving more troops to Asia nal, national security adviser makes sense, said Cord Scott, a Robert O’Brien wrote that no of- University of Maryland Global ficial announcement has been Campus Asia professor who CHARLES ROSEMOND/U.S. Army teaches history, film and gov- made, details of any troop moves Soldiers with the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade march at Katterbach Army Airfield in Ansbach, Germany, ernment on U.S. bases in South remain under development and in July 2019. Thousands of troops could redeploy to the Indo-Pacific under a plan to reduce U.S.