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COLLEGE BASKETBALL MILITARY FACES Merrimack announces Navy overhauls Rateliff says solo Division I arrival with its approach tour not the end record-setting season to education of Night Sweats Back page Page 4 Page 14 Pacific commander nominated as next Air Force chief of staff » Page 3 stripes.com Volume 78, No. 228 ©SS 2020 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas Military uses screenings to keep virus off US bases BY ROSE L. THAYER Stars and Stripes Defense Department officials are working to keep coronavirus from spreading onto military bases in the United States, forcing troops returning from overseas deployments to endure multiple medical screenings before going home. “Overall the broad impact to the U.S. military is very, very minimal,” said Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “We hope to keep it that way.” Milley and Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday outlined the preparations underway at military bases across the U.S. to protect service members and their families from the coronavi- rus outbreak, while also arrang- ing to provide inter-government agency support. ‘It is heartbreaking’ Last week, a flight of 248 Fort Hood soldiers leaving Korea for Texas was delayed in “an abun- LARRY MCCORMACK, THE TENNESSEAN/AP dance of caution” as medical teams assessed whether two sick soldiers had coronavirus, base of- Downtown Nashville hit as deadly ficials said. The soldiers are part of the 1st tornadoes rip through Tennessee Cavalry Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, which began re- BY TRAVIS LOLLER destroying the tower and stained turning last month from a nine- AND KIMBERLEE KRUESI glass of a historic church. An- month rotation to Korea, where Associated Press other erased homes from their more than 3,000 coronavirus foundations along a two-mile cases include one service mem- NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tor- path in Putnam County. ber and his wife. nadoes ripped across Tennessee Daybreak revealed a land- as people slept early Tuesday, scape littered with blown-down SEE VIRUS ON PAGE 9 shredding at least 140 buildings walls and roofs, snapped power and killing at least 22 people. lines and huge broken trees, Authorities described pains- leaving city streets in gridlock. RELATED taking efforts to find survivors Schools, courts, transit lines, in piles of rubble and wrecked an airport and the state Capitol Italy-based US basements as the death toll were closed. MARK HUMPHREY/AP climbed. More than a dozen polling paratroopers leave One twister caused severe stations were damaged, forcing Above: A man walks through storm debris Tuesday following a damage across a 10-mile stretch Super Tuesday voters to wait in deadly tornado in Nashville, Tenn. At top: Rescue workers free Israel after exercise of downtown Nashville, wreck- long lines at alternative sites. Bill and Shirley Wallace from their home that collapsed after a is canceled ing businesses and homes and SEE TORNADOES ON PAGE 10 tornado hit the area Tuesday in Mt. Juliet, Tenn. Page 8 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, March 4, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Apple to pay up to $500M over phone slowdown Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9567 Euro costs (March 4) .......................$1.1408 Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 31.52 Dollar buys (March 4) ......................€0.8766 Turkey (Lira) .........................................6.1534 British pound (March 4) ......................$1.31 (Military exchange rates are those BY RACHEL LERMAN models to avoid unexpected shut- company will pay $310 million to Japanese yen (March 4) ....................106.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (March 4) ........1,161.00 Associated Press downs related to battery fatigue. $500 million, including about $93 Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the That admission led to Apple million to lawyers representing Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3766 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For British pound .....................................$1.2785 SAN FRANCISCO — IPhone offering discounted battery re- consumers. nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3354 purchasing British pounds in Germany), owners could get $25 from Apple placements at $29, but many peo- IPhone users who were named China (Yuan) ........................................6.9777 check with your local military banking after the company agreed to pay Denmark (Krone) ................................6.7148 ple claimed that they had already in the class-action lawsuit will get facility. Commercial rates are interbank up to $500 million to settle claims Egypt (Pound) ....................................15.6498 spent hundreds of dollars to buy up to $3,500 each. The rest of the Euro ........................................ $1.1129/0.8985 rates provided for reference when buying over intentionally slowing down new phones because Apple didn’t settlement money will be distrib- Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7788 currency. All figures are foreign currencies to one dollar, except for the British pound, older phones to preserve older reveal the cause of the problem. uted to owners of iPhone 6, 6S, 7 Hungary (Forint) .................................302.89 Israel (Shekel) ..................................... 3.4574 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, batteries. If they had known they could just and SE models who meet eligibil- Japan (Yen) ........................................... 107.65 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) Apple and lawyers represent- buy new batteries, they might not ity requirements related to the Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3060 INTEREST RATES Norway (Krone) ...................................9.2821 ing iPhone consumers agreed to a have bought new phones, some operating system they had run- Philippines (Peso).................................50.85 Prime rate ................................................4.75 deal stemming from Apple’s 2017 consumers in the case said. ning. They must file claims to get Poland (Zloty) ..........................................3.88 Discount rate ..........................................2.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7518 Federal funds market rate ...................1.58 admission that it was slowing Apple did not admit wrongdo- the award. If too many people file, Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3915 3-month bill .............................................1.55 down phone performance in older ing. As part of the settlement, the the $25 amount could shrink. South Korea (Won) ..........................1,192.24 30-year bond ...........................................1.65 WEATHER OUTLOOK WEDNESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEDNESDAY IN EUROPE THURSDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 42/39 Kabul 48/39 Seoul 40/26 Baghdad 73/49 Kandahar 67/50 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 44/27 52/48 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 43/32 41/35 44/31 Iwakuni 47/39 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 67/64 Brussels 44/33 Guam 71/55 45/35 Ramstein 46/41 81/78 Lajes, 41/33 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 74/47 72/57 60/57 45/33 48/39 Aviano/ Vicenza 48/37 Naples 55/48 Okinawa Morón 63/60 63/53 Sigonella Rota 54/45 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 84/71 61/56 58/55 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 Wednesday, March 4, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Pacific commander tapped to be USAF chief Brown is a battle- Brown is an F-16 pilot with nearly 3,000 as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General would become tested fighter pilot flight hours, including some 130 in com- from 1989 to 1993, but he was never Army who commanded bat, according to the Air Force. During chief of staff. first African American air forces operating his 34 years in the military, he has piloted Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett in the Middle East more than a dozen other aircraft, includ- said Brown’s skills would be particularly — against the Islamic military service leader ing bombers, helicopters and Osprey tilt- useful as the Pentagon works to speed up State in Iraq and Syria rotor aircraft, according to his official — and Afghanistan. its implementation of the 2018 National biography. Defense Strategy, which places power BY COREY DICKSTEIN Goldfein tweeted Brown is a 1984 graduate of Texas Tech competition with China and Russia above Stars and Stripes his congratulations University and was commissioned through to Brown on Monday other national security issues, such as in- the school’s ROTC program. WASHINGTON — Gen. Charles Q. after his nomination ternational terrorism emanating from the Brown He has commanded a fighter squadron, Brown Jr. was nominated Monday to be- was announced. Middle East and Afghanistan. the U.S. Air Force Weapons School, two come the next Air Force chief of staff, a “He’s led worldwide — in the Pacific, “The [Air Force] will be well served by fighter wings, and served as an adviser to selection that would make him the first Europe, the Middle East and Africa,” the the formidable talents of CQ Brown,” Bar- African American to serve as the top uni- Air