MILITARY FACES INDY 500 Fired Air Force general ‘Love in the Time Pole-sitter Marco Andretti belittled staff, clashed of Corona’ a time digging deep to break his with her peers, IG says capsule of the times family’s so-called curse Page 3 Page 15 Back page Unemployment claims again rise to more than 1 million in US » Page 8 Volume 79, No. 90 ©SS 2020 CONTINGENCY EDITION FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2020 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES Tens of thousands ordered to leave, including some Blazes bear down from Travis AFB BY ANDREW FREEDMAN AND JASON SAMENOW The Washington Post on neighborhoods Wildfires touched off by a bar- rage of lightning strikes in central and northern California continue to expand. The massive blazes are sending plumes of smoke and ash into the skies surrounding San Francisco, fouling air quality for hundreds of miles and endangering pub- lic health. Evacuations expanded overnight Wednesday into the early morning hours on Thursday, includ- ing portions of Travis Air Force Base, an Air Force logistics hub. On Thursday morning, one group- ing of fires had more than doubled in area since Wednesday, to 124,100 acres. The fast-spreading fire — known as the LNU Lightning Com- plex in Napa and Sonoma Counties — threatens 25,000 structures, ac- cording to Cal Fire, the state fire- fighting agency. Late Wednesday, officials shut down Interstate 80 west of Vacaville, located southwest of San Francisco, as flames jumped the highway. SEE BLAZES ON PAGE 11 Firefighter David Widaman directs water onto a tree as a crew defends a house northwest of Santa Cruz, Calif., on Wednesday. SHMUEL THALER, THE SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL/AP DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION RELATED DOD investigates 2 soldiers who appeared in uniform Harris BY STEVE BEYNON tion delegates to former Vice President in a statement. “The Army follows the accepts Stars and Stripes Joe Biden to formalize his nomination Department of Defense’s longstanding historic as the Democratic candidate for presi- and well-defined policy regarding po- WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is dent, American Samoa used two Army litical campaigns and elections to avoid investigating two junior enlisted sol- VP nomination Reserve specialists from the 9th Mis- the perception of DoD sponsorship, ap- diers who violated an Army regulation proval or endorsement of any political Page 10 when they appeared in uniform during sion Support Command as a backdrop behind two delegates. candidate, campaign or cause.” the Democratic National Convention The two uniformed reservists’ partic- “Wearing a uniform to a partisan broadcast Tuesday night, a Defense ipation in the convention came after the political event like this is prohibited,” Department spokesman said. Democratic Party’s message to troops During a roll call of all the states Lt. Col. Emanuel Ortiz, a Defense De- CAROLYN KASTER/AP and territories pledging their conven- partment spokesman, said Wednesday SEE SOLDIERS ON PAGE 10 PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, August 21, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Apple reaches $2T market value as tech thrives Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................ 0.9107 Euro costs (Aug. 21) ............................. $1.16 Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 31.46 Dollar buys (Aug. 21) ........................€0.8231 Turkey (Lira) .........................................7.3414 British pound (Aug. 21) ....................... $1.28 (Military exchange rates are those Associated Press $467.77. lished tech giants such as Micro- Japanese yen (Aug. 21) .....................103.00 available to customers at military banking The stock later backtracked soft, Google, Amazon, Facebook South Korean won (Aug. 21) .........1,156.00 facilities in the country of issuance BERKELEY, Calif. — Apple Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the to close at $462.83, but it didn’t and Netflix have thrived during Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For has become the first U.S. com- diminish a remarkable achieve- the upheaval as the pandemic has British pound .....................................$1.3100 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., pany to boast a market value of $2 Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3230 purchasing British pounds in Germany), ment that came just two years forced millions of people to work, China (Yuan) ........................................6.9207 check with your local military banking trillion as technology continues Denmark (Krone) ................................6.2943 facility. Commercial rates are interbank after Apple became the first U.S. attend classes, shop and entertain rates provided for reference when buying to reshape a world where smart- company with a $1 trillion market themselves at home. That, in turn, Egypt (Pound) ....................................15.9303 currency. All figures are foreign currencies phones are like appendages and Euro ........................................$1.1829/0.8454 to one dollar, except for the British pound, value. It comes amid a devastat- has made technology even more Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7505 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, digital services are like instru- Hungary (Forint) .................................296.03 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) ing pandemic that has shoved the crucial, a factor that has caused Israel (Shekel) ..................................... 3.4017 ments orchestrating people’s economy into a deep recession investors to snap up the stocks of Japan (Yen) ...........................................105.98 lives. and caused unemployment rates the industry’s biggest players, as Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3059 INTEREST RATES The iPhone maker reached the Norway (Krone) ...................................8.9830 to soar to the worst levels since well as relative newcomers, such Philippines (Peso).................................48.70 Prime rate ................................................3.25 $2 trillion milestone in Wednes- the Great Depression nearly a as video conferencing service Poland (Zloty) ..........................................3.71 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7504 Federal funds market rate ...................0.09 day’s early stock market trad- century ago. Zoom, which has seen its shares Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3698 3-month bill ............................................. 0.10 ing when its shares surpassed But Apple and other well-estab- quadruple so far this year. South Korea (Won) ..........................1,189.29 30-year bond ........................................... 1.41 WEATHER OUTLOOK FRIDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST FRIDAY IN EUROPE SATURDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 68/65 Kabul 95/73 Seoul 87/72 Baghdad 108/74 Kandahar 101/71 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 85/73 86/75 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 73/64 82/66 86/76 Iwakuni 83/79 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 94/90 Brussels 83/63 Guam 107/85 80/71 Ramstein 87/78 87/78 Lajes, 81/73 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 109/79 108/82 73/70 89/63 83/61 Aviano/ Vicenza 82/68 Naples 91/71 Okinawa Morón 85/82 96/58 Sigonella Rota 93/66 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 105/89 79/64 80/73 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup .. 14 Comics ................. 18 Crossword ............ 18 Faces ................... 15 Opinion ............16-17 Sports ............. 19-24 Friday, August 21, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 MILITARY IG: General belittled staff, clashed with peers BY COREY DICKSTEIN an assault charge. Stars and Stripes ‘ I think she’s a Nonetheless, the IG found that incident “compromised her WASHINGTON — Maj. Gen. good fighter pilot. I standing as an officer” and “con- Dawn Dunlop, one of the Air think she’s a good stituted indecorum and conduct Force’s highest-ranking female unbecoming an officer.” fighter pilots, regularly belit- general officer. I Dunlop, a 1988 graduate of the tled subordinates and clashed Air Force Academy in Colorado with peers before her removal think she lacked who has logged more than 3,500 as the leader of a Pentagon of- communications hours flying fighter jets, defend- fice responsible for some of the ed many of her actions and lead- military’s most secret programs, skills. ’ an Air Force inspector general ership style as SAPCO’s leader to unnamed staff member IG investigators. She said work- probe found. U.S. Air Force investigation report Investigators substantiated al- ers in the office were not used legations that Dunlop publicly to facing direct criticism of their chastised and disrespected mili- work, which she argued needed tary and civilian workers during Gen. Dunlop engaged in a pattern improvement. her time as director of the De- of disrespectful behavior toward She said her intention was fense Department’s Special Ac- her staff … in a way that was never to belittle her subordinates, cess Programs Central Office, or pervasive, personal, public and KENJI THULOWEIT/U.S. Air Force especially in public. SAPCO, which she ran from Au- disproportional.” Maj. Gen. Dawn Dunlop, director of the Office of the Secretary of “What I have found effective in gust 2018 until her firing in May Through more than 30 years in Defense Special Access Programs stands in front of an aircraft at my career, or what has worked for 2019. Her