Volume 79, No. 135B ©SS 2020 CONTINGENCY EDITION SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2020 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas VIRUS OUTBREAK US caseload reaches new heights with over 83,000 BY REBECCA BOONE AND DAVID CRARY Associated Press BOISE, Idaho— The U.S. coro- navirus caseload has reached record heights with more than 83,000 infections reported in a sin- gle day, the latest ominous sign of the disease’s grip on the nation, with RECORD HIGH states from Connecticut The U.S. death to the Rocky toll has grown Mountain to 223,995. West reel- The total U.S. ing from the caseload reported case surge. Friday reached The U.S. death toll, 83,757, topping meanwhile, the previous high has grown to of 77,362 cases 223,995, ac- reported July 16. cording to the SOURCE: COVID-19 COVID-19 Dashboard, Johns Dashboard Hopkins University published by MILITARY Johns Hopkins University. The total U.S. caseload reported on the site Friday was 83,757, top- ping the 77,362 cases reported on July 16. The impact is being felt in every section of the country — a lockdown starting Friday at the Taking an unseen toll Oglala Sioux Tribe’s reserva- tion in South Dakota, a plea by a Florida health official for a halt to COVID-19 restrictions, isolation could be behind rash of suicides among amputee vets children’s birthday parties, dire warnings from Utah’s governor, and an increasingly desperate BY ALEX HORTON rines on patrol in the violent Taliban citadel of ‘ This pandemic, although situation at a hospital in northern The Washington Post Marjah. His heel burrowed into the mud and viral in nature; alludes to onto a pressure plate bomb, thrusting him into Idaho, which is running out of what happens to us as Not long before he took his own life, Marine the air and severing his right leg. space for patients and consider- ing airlifts to Seattle or Portland, Corps veteran Rory Hamill posted a photo of His life became a blur of surgeries and recov- human beings, when we Ore. himself on a stoop, baring his alloy leg as he ery, and in moments of darkness, he had contem- are stripped of our outlets, stared defiantly. and are deprived of our “We’ve essentially shut down plated ending it all, he later said. an entire floor of our hospital. Nearly a decade earlier, Hamill was on his ability to socialize. second tour in Afghanistan, leading junior Ma- SEE TOLL ON PAGE 4 ’ We’ve had to double rooms. We’ve Rory Hamill bought more hospital beds,” said Rory Hamill, a Marine veteran who lost a leg in Afghanistan, stands for a portrait on Joint Base Marine Corps veteran, in an Dr. Robert Scoggins, a pulmo- McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., in 2017. Hamill died May 1 of an apparent suicide at the age of 31. Instagram post on April 19. Hamill nologist at the Kootenai Health hospital in Coeur d’Alene, Id. “Our MATT HECHT/U.S. Air National Guard took his own life two weeks later. SEE HEIGHTS ON PAGE 5 MILITARY MILITARY MUSIC Two pilots dead after Schoolchildren killed in Jon Bon Jovi refuses Navy training plane suicide bomb explosion to live in the past on crashes in Alabama at Kabul education center new album ‘2020’ Page 3 Page 4 Page 12 49ers’ Garoppolo back on familiar ground at Foxborough » NFL, Back page PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, October 25, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9048 Euro costs (Oct. 26) ..............................$1.16 Thailand (Baht) .................................... 31.30 Stocks shake off slow start Dollar buys (Oct. 26) ........................ €0.8228 Turkey (Lira) ........................................ 7.9542 British pound (Oct. 26) ........................$1.27 (Military exchange rates are those Japanese yen (Oct. 26) ......................102.00 available to customers at military banking Associated Press South Korean won (Oct. 26) ..........1,107.00 facilities in the country of issuance ing higher this month after giv- their jobs during the coronavirus Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the ing back some of their big gains pandemic. Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For Stocks shrugged off a sluggish this year in a sudden September On Thursday, While House British pound .....................................$1.3034 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., start and ended mostly higher Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3144 purchasing British pounds in Germany), swoon. Treasury yields remained Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that China (Yuan) ....................................... 6.6868 check with your local military banking on Wall Street Friday. The S&P near their highest level since progress is still being made, but Denmark (Krone) ................................6.2752 facility. Commercial rates are interbank 500 managed a gain of 0.3%, but Egypt (Pound) ....................................15.7077 rates provided for reference when buying June, and crude oil prices fell. any compromise will likely face Euro ........................................$1.1858/0.8433 currency. All figures are foreign currencies to one dollar, except for the British pound, still posted its first weekly loss in More recently, trading on Wall stiff resistance from Republicans Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7501 Hungary (Forint) .................................307.98 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, four weeks. Facebook led gains in and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) Street has been choppy as inves- in the Senate. Wall Street is wor- Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.3785 communications stocks. Intel fell tors keep an eye on the ongoing ried that if an agreement on more Japan (Yen) ...........................................104.73 sharply after reporting weakness Kuwait (Dinar) .................................... 0.3056 INTEREST RATES negotiations between Republi- economic aid isn’t reached before Norway (Krone) ...................................9.2428 in its data center business. Intel’s can and Democratic leaders in the Nov. 3 election, it could leave Philippines (Peso).................................48.41 Prime rate ................................................3.25 drop pulled the Dow Jones In- Poland (Zloty) ......................................... 3.85 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Washington over another round the matter in limbo should there Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7503 Federal funds market rate ...................0.09 dustrial Average to a small loss. of aid for businesses and mil- be a protracted delay in sorting Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3577 3-month bill ............................................. 0.10 Stocks have been mostly push- lions of people who have lost out the outcome of the voting. South Korea (Won) .......................... 1129.94 30-year bond ...........................................1.64 WEATHER OUTLOOK SUNDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SUNDAY IN EUROPE MONDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 54/49 Kabul 60/42 Seoul 62/43 Baghdad 89/55 Kandahar 71/42 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 68/44 64/47 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 54/46 57/48 64/48 Iwakuni 66/59 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 83/80 Brussels 61/48 Guam 89/64 57/54 Ramstein 66/56 86/78 Lajes, 62/48 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 85/55 95/68 65/51 61/47 54/50 Aviano/ Vicenza 61/51 Naples 65/57 Okinawa Morón 78/75 66/48 Sigonella Rota 71/54 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 91/77 67/60 74/67 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 11 Books ....................... 14 Comics/Crossword ...... 15 Gadgets ....................16 Music ....................12-13 Opinion ..................... 17 Sports .................. 18-24 Sunday, October 25, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 MILITARY US slams NATO ally Turkey for its weapon test BY ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday slammed Turkey for taking a new step toward fielding a Russian- made air defense weapon. The U.S. complaint marked a deepen- ing rift that threatens the future of a security relationship that has GREG CRIPPEN/AP been central to the NATO mili- Emergency personnel examine the scene where a U.S. Navy training plane crashed in a neighborhood tary alliance for seven decades. near Foley, Ala., near the Gulf Coast, on Friday . After Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed that his country had tested the S-400 air defense system and brushed off American complaints, saying, 2 aboard Navy training plane “We aren’t going to ask America,” Erdogan the Pentagon hit back. “The U.S. Department of De- 400 system. Turkey was mak- killed in crash in Alabama fense condemns in the strongest ing components for the F-35 and possible terms Turkey’s October had planned to purchase 100 of Associated Press able to make “a quick stop on the fire,” the chief told 16 test of the S-400 air defense the stealth fighters. The Trump local news outlets. FOLEY, Ala. — A U.S. Navy training plane that system,” the top Pentagon spokes- administration has held out the took off from Florida crashed Friday in an Alabama The crash occurred southeast of Mobile, near man, Jonathan Hoffman, said in possibility of easing the dispute residential neighborhood near the Gulf Coast, kill- the city of Foley and the town of Magnolia Springs. a statement. “We have been clear if Turkey decides not to move for- ing both people in the plane, authorities said. Darby called the neighborhood a “heavily populat- and unwavering in our position: ward with activating the air de- Zach Harrell, a spokesperson for Commander, ed” residential area. No firefighters were injured, an operational S-400 system is fense system, but Erdogan seems not consistent with Turkey’s com- Naval Air Forces, said both people in the T-6B he added. ready to go ahead. mitments as a U.S. and NATO Texan II training plane died, but they weren’t im- The plane had flown out of Naval Air Station Whit- “We are determined. We will ally.” mediately releasing their names.