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FOOTBALL MUSIC VIRUS OUTBREAK Paul Hornung, Heisman Stones’ Keith Richards Some states resisting winner who helped build reflects on reissue return to lockdowns Packers dynasty, dies of solo project as infections rise Back page Page 12 Page 6 Pentagon IDs 5 Americans killed in Black Hawk crash in Egypt » Page 4 Volume 79, No. 150B ©SS 2020 CONTINGENCY EDITION SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2020 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas Army looks to sports tech ‘All wars for help with costly injuries must end’ BY COREY DICKSTEIN Stars and Stripes WASHINGTON — Looking to Trump’s new defense secretary solve the costly training injuries that have long-plagued its soldiers, signals troop drawdown ahead the Army is set to test technology popular with major sports programs BY TARA COPP AND MICHAEL WILNER to help the service build individual- McClatchy Washington Bureau ized approaches to its troops’ fitness workouts. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s The technology, force plates outfit- new defense secretary signaled to the military in ted with machine learning software, a late Friday message that he could be there to will be tested during the coming carry out one of the president’s early campaign months as part of a health and fit- promises — an overseas drawdown of forces in ness pilot program the Army is run- Iraq and Afghanistan. ning with new officers training at Fort Sill, Okla., service officials said. “This is the critical phase in which we transition The Army hopes the technology will our efforts from a leadership to supporting role,” fit into its new Holistic Health and acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller said Fitness — or H2F — program that in a memo obtained by McClatchy. “We are not a it rolled out last month in an effort people of perpetual war — it is the antithesis of partially aimed at reducing the trove everything for which we stand and for which our of some 58,000 soldiers considered ancestors fought. All wars must end.” nondeployable, most often for train- ing-related injuries. Trump in a tweet Monday announced Miller Soldiers will conduct a series of as the replacement for fired Defense Secretary movements on top of the force plates Mark Esper. — 30-pound rectangular metal pan- In the memo to the Defense Department work- els that look like oversized bathroom force, Miller described at length the respect he scales — from which the software has for the institution and the sacrifices made by can predict specific injury vulner- thousands of men and women who have deployed abilities and help fitness experts to the Middle East since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. tailor training programs to reduce those risks, said Dr. Phil Wagner, He said, “ending wars requires compromise and the founder and CEO of Sparta Sci- partnership. We met the challenge; we gave it our ence, the company supplying the all. Now, it’s time to come home.” technology for the Fort Sill pilot. The It was the first indication of what direction the key factor is the massive accumula- Pentagon might take during Trump’s final weeks tion of data the Silicon Valley, Calif., in office, the uncertainty of which has raised company has collected from more concerns among career defense officials and the than 2 million scans via its force incoming Biden administration about what the plates, Wagner said. “The system gets better with more changes mean — whether he is rewarding loyal- data that comes in — the insights be- ists or trying to force through policies the depart- come more accurate and more spe- ment has resisted over the last four years. cific,” he said. SEE DRAWDOWN ON PAGE 4 SEE SPORTS ON PAGE 3 Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller walks down the steps at the Pentagon during a ceremony welcoming Lithuanian Minister of 58,000 National Defence Raimundas Karoblis on Friday. MANUEL BALCE CENETA/AP Soldiers the Army considers nondeployable, most because of training-related injuries. PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 15, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9134 Euro costs (Nov. 16) ............................. $1.15 Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 30.17 Dollar buys (Nov. 16) ........................ €0.8253 Turkey (Lira) .........................................7.6491 S&P finishes at record high British pound (Nov. 16) ........................$1.28 (Military exchange rates are those Japanese yen (Nov. 16) ......................102.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (Nov. 16) ...........1083.00 facilities in the country of issuance Commercial rates Associated Press for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the probably mean a continuation of points, or 1.4%, to 29,479.81 and Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For business-friendly policies. the Nasdaq rose 119.70 points, or British pound ..................................... $1.3176 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., The S&P 500 closed at a record purchasing British pounds in Germany), The S&P 500 added 48.14 1%, to 11,829.29. Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3136 high on Friday as optimism built China (Yuan) ....................................... 6.6064 check with your local military banking points, or 1.4%, to 3,585.15, rising The market index that had the Denmark (Krone) ................................6.2938 facility. Commercial rates are interbank among investors that a coming Egypt (Pound) ....................................15.6395 rates provided for reference when buying above the index’s previous clos- best week was the Russell 2000, Euro ........................................$1.1832/0.8452 currency. All figures are foreign currencies vaccine for the coronavirus will ing record of 3,580.84 set back in which is made up of smaller com- Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7533 to one dollar, except for the British pound, which is represented in dollars-to-pound, help end the shutdowns that have early September. panies that tend to benefit the Hungary (Forint) ................................ 301.93 Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.3685 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) devastated the economy. Both the Dow Jones Industrial most when investors are posi- Japan (Yen) ...........................................104.64 Markets also welcomed the Average and the Nasdaq compos- tive on the economy. The Russell Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3057 INTEREST RATES Norway (Krone) .................................. 9.1667 election of Joe Biden as president ite closed higher as well, but did climbed 2.1% to close at 1,744.04, Philippines (Peso)................................. 48.16 Prime rate ................................................3.25 and the likelihood of Republican not close at records. besting the closing high it reached Poland (Zloty) ..........................................3.80 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7504 Federal funds market rate ...................0.09 control of the Senate, setting up The S&P 500 ended the week in August 2018. The index jumped Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3475 3-month bill .............................................0.09 a divided government that will up 2.2%. The Dow rose 399.64 6.1% this week. South Korea (Won) ...........................1108.65 30-year bond ...........................................1.65 WEATHER OUTLOOK SUNDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SUNDAY IN EUROPE MONDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 57/37 Kabul 50/36 Seoul 66/40 Baghdad 78/56 Kandahar 57/42 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 65/41 68/46 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 56/53 52/41 66/45 Iwakuni 72/54 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 83/72 Brussels 50/42 Guam 79/59 59/53 Ramstein 68/59 86/80 Lajes, 60/48 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 80/57 94/77 65/62 61/44 50/45 Aviano/ Vicenza 58/43 Naples 67/56 Okinawa Morón 79/73 76/56 Sigonella Rota 75/52 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 87/77 74/59 65/54 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 & Tech .........16 Music ....................12-13 Opinion ..................... 18 Sports .................. 19-24 Sunday, November 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 MILITARY Army activates two Iron Dome batteries BY COREY DICKSTEIN its range of air defense capabili- of the soldiers in the two new bat- earlier this year that Iron Dome missiles and even some aircraft, Stars and Stripes ties, the Army announced in a teries should arrive at Fort Bliss was already a “very capable and including helicopters and drones statement. by Monday. proven” anti-missile weapon, but at short ranges, according to WASHINGTON — The Army Iron Dome, built by Israeli de- Those soldiers will help Army he told lawmakers that it was not Rafael. Iron Dome’s interceptor on Friday activated two new air fense company Rafael Advanced Futures Command determine certain it could easily plug into missiles are built by U.S. defense defense artillery batteries at Fort Defense Systems, is designed to whether Iron Dome fits into the the Integrated Air and Missile contractor Raytheon. Bliss, Texas, charged with evalu- shoot down short-range projec- service’s plans for modernizing Defense platform. The Army said Friday that ating the two Iron Dome missile tiles launched