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MILITARY VIDEO GAMES VIRUS OUTBREAK Army amends AWOL policy Creaks might melt DOD says transmission risk after numerous high-profile your brain, but it’s on crowded airplanes with disappearances at Fort Hood beautiful, whimsical people wearing masks low Page 3 Page 13 Page 5 Correa’s ninth-inning homer helps Astros stave off elimination » Back page Volume 79, No. 130A ©SS 2020 CONTINGENCY EDITION Saturday, October 17, 2020 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas ELECTION 2020 Army’s V Corps back in action as presence grows in Poland BY JOHN VANDIVER Stars and Stripes STUTTGART, Germany — The Army’s storied V Corps offi- cially reactivated Friday during a ceremony at Fort Knox, Ky., and a small portion of the unit is al- ready on the ground in Poland to take up a new mission. “We currently have a hand- ful of V Corps troops stationed in Poland and will continue to build capacity throughout the year,” U.S. Army Europe said in a statement. Full rotations to Poland will begin in the 2022 fiscal year, USAREUR said. The military announced in February that it was reforming V Corps to bring more command and control support to an expand- ing Army mission in Europe. In September, the Army selected Poznan, Poland, as the site for a command post. The U.S. and Poland are still working through red tape before fully launching the mission in Poznan, Defense Secretary Mark Esper indicated Thursday. “We EVAN VUCCI/AP (left); CAROLYN KASTER/AP also plan to rotate forward the lead element of the Army’s new V Left: President Donald Trump appears at the NBC News town hall at Perez Art Museum Miami on Thursday.
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