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Biden, the Democratic Presidential Nominee, Said He Does Not Plan Major Defense Cuts If Elected MILITARY FACES NFL USFK commander: US ‘The Walking Dead’ Buccaneers QB Brady, air crews must do live-fire to end in 2022, Colts QB Rivers each seek training outside South Korea after 11th season success at new address Page 5 Page 15 Back page IG: DODEA failed to report serious incidents involving students » Page 3 Volume 79, No. 105 ©SS 2020 CONTINGENCY EDITION FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, said he does not plan major defense cuts if elected. Biden: Small footprint is still needed in Middle East BY STEVE BEYNON Stars and Stripes WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday he supports drawing down troops in the Middle East but would maintain a small foot- print because extremist groups in the region still pose a threat to the United States and its allies. “These ‘forever wars’ have to end. I support drawing down the troops. But here’s the problem, BY CHAD GARLAND Rangers],” said Staff Sgt. Ryan Duhon, Air Force special ops we still have to worry about ter- Stars and Stripes a tactical air control party operator quoted in last month’s statement. “We rorism and ISIS,” Biden told he U.S. response to the 9/11 members ‘fight, bleed win as a team or fail as a team.” Stars and Stripes in a telephone attacks launched an Air The unbroken stretch of deployments interview. Force special operations unit and laugh’ on nearly 7,000 to the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and He also said he does not fore- into more than 6,900 days, or Syria appears to be a record matched see major reductions in the U.S. nearly two decades, of con- days of uninterrupted only by the 75th Ranger Regiment, defense budget as the military T refocuses its attention to potential tinuous deployments and combat opera- which the Army has said is its only unit tions in the Middle East, officials said. deployments following 9/11 to be continuously deployed since Octo- threats from “near peer” powers Within weeks of the terrorist attacks ber 2001, when some 200 Rangers made such as China and Russia. on the U.S., the 17th Special Tactics an airborne assault south of Kandahar. Stars and Stripes has also Squadron deployed with Army Rangers An airman assigned to the 17th Many of the regiment’s senior leaders requested an interview with on raids into southern Afghanistan on Special Tactics Squadron fires an have “double-digit deployments with President Donald Trump, who Oct. 19, 2001. Since then, the squadron M4 carbine during an exercise years, not months” away from home, it has made ending the “forev- has had no breaks in deployment of its at Mountain Home Air Force Base, said in a February statement. er wars” a cornerstone of his tactical air control party operators and Idaho, in August 2018. The unit has The Air Force unit, which has detach- administration. other special tactics airmen to support racked up more than 6,900 days ments in three locations to train and Biden spoke a day after Gen. Ranger battalions downrange, an Air of continuous deployments deploy alongside the five 75th Ranger Frank McKenzie, commander of Regiment battalions, is primarily made Force statement said. and combat operations. U.S. Central Command, said that the U.S. plans to cut the troop “We fight, bleed and laugh beside [the SANDRA WELCH/U.S. Air Force SEE NO BREAKS ON PAGE 5 level in Iraq from 5,200 to 3,000 SEE BIDEN ON PAGE 3 PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, September 11, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9059 Huawei: US sanctions hit chip supply, growth Euro costs (Sept. 11) ............................$1.16 Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 31.26 Dollar buys (Sept. 11) .......................€0.8191 Turkey (Lira) .........................................7.4242 British pound (Sept. 11) ...................... $1.27 (Military exchange rates are those Associated Press share in the Chinese smartphone the last month. Japanese yen (Sept. 11) ....................103.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (Sept. 11) ........1,155.00 facilities in the country of issuance industry. In May, the U.S. barred chip- Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the HONG KONG — A Huawei Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3771 The U.S. has imposed vari- makers that use U.S. technology Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For British pound .....................................$1.2946 executive says that recent U.S. nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., ous sanctions on Huawei, citing and software to design chips from Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3141 sanctions against the company purchasing British pounds in Germany), selling to the Shenzhen-based China (Yuan) ........................................6.8296 national security concerns. The check with your local military banking have caused a shortage of com- Denmark (Krone) ................................6.2526 company without a license. facility. Commercial rates are interbank latest, ordered in August, restrict Egypt (Pound) ....................................15.7576 puter chips for the company, hurt- Despite the troubles with Wash- rates provided for reference when buying foreign semiconductor companies Euro ........................................$1.1899/0.8404 ing the growth of its smartphone ington, in 2019 Huawei shipped Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7504 currency. All figures are foreign currencies from selling chips to Huawei that Hungary (Forint) .................................299.99 to one dollar, except for the British pound, business. over 240 million phones glob- which is represented in dollars-to-pound, are produced using American Israel (Shekel) ..................................... 3.4127 Richard Yu, president of Hua- ally, and was the second-biggest Japan (Yen) ........................................... 106.14 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) wei Technologies’ consumer technology. smartphone maker in the world. Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3058 INTEREST RATES business, said at a company con- “Even after this third blow, we Norway (Krone) ...................................8.9380 In the first half of 2020, the com- Philippines (Peso).................................48.60 Prime rate ................................................3.25 ference for developers on Thurs- still managed to achieve growth,” pany generated revenues of about Poland (Zloty) ...........................................3.74 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 said Yu, who acknowledged that Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7503 Federal funds market rate ...................0.09 day that the company has still $63 billion , up 13.1% from the Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3640 3-month bill ............................................. 0.10 managed to gain a 51% market growth had been impacted over same period a year earlier. South Korea (Won) ..........................1,185.05 30-year bond ...........................................1.46 WEATHER OUTLOOK FRIDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST FRIDAY IN EUROPE SATURDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 64/61 Kabul 90/57 Seoul 77/64 Baghdad 111/78 Kandahar 91/55 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 80/63 78/73 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 66/48 60/49 77/68 Iwakuni 79/76 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 93/88 Brussels 66/51 Guam 106/86 72/56 Ramstein 76/73 84/81 Lajes, 73/53 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 105/75 99/82 72/69 71/59 77/60 Aviano/ Vicenza 76/63 Naples 84/71 Okinawa Morón 83/80 96/61 Sigonella Rota 84/70 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 97/84 83/64 77/73 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup .. 14 Comics ................. 16 Crossword ............ 16 Faces ................... 15 Opinion ................ 17 Sports ............. 18-24 Friday, September 11, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 MILITARY IG: DODEA failed to report serious incidents Officials withheld information on cases of sexual assault, violence BY JENNIFER H. SVAN and Dec . 31, 2017. Stars and Stripes Two of the schools were in Germany, at Ramstein Air Base KAISERSLAUTERN, Ger- and in Kaiserslautern; and two in many — Hundreds of serious Japan, at Camp Foster and Kade- incidents involving students at na Air Base. The schools were not Defense Department schools, named. including alleged sexual assault The auditors determined that and threats of physical violence, of 600 cases that could have been have gone unreported because of categorized as serious juvenile- policies that allow principals to on-juvenile misconduct, more decide whether to report them, a report by the DOD Inspector than 500 were not reported to General has said. DODEA headquarters or base of- School administrators failed ficials. The report attributed that to report 522 of 600 serious ju- to school administrators being venile-on-juvenile incidents to allowed to decide which incidents headquarters and failed to notify should be reported, and to un- law enforcement or base com- clear requirements for when an manders in 524 and 593 cases, incident should be reported. respectively, the report found. As DODEA has a database for a result, installation command- what it defines as serious inci- ers were prevented from holding dents, including drug and alco- the offenders accountable, law hol use, arson, vandalism,
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