PGA CHAMPIONSHIP VIRUS OUTBREAK FACES Jordan Spieth chases Selfishness derided Live-action ‘Mulan’ career Grand Slam as US approaches to debut on Disney+ out of the spotlight 5 million cases for additional charge Back page Page 10 Page 15 Beirut port officials facing house arrest after massive blast » Page 13 stripes.com Volume 79, No. 79 ©SS 2020 THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas Cost creeps HIROSHIMA AT 75 up for Navy’s next carrier BY TONY CAPACCIO Bloomberg The Navy vowed that a run- away budget wouldn’t be allowed again after the USS Gerald Ford, the first in a new class of aircraft carriers, cost a record $13.3 bil- lion. Now, the price for the second ship is creeping up. The service’s estimate for ship- builder Huntington Ingalls In- dustries to design and construct the USS John F. Kennedy has increased to $3.58 billion, up 7% from the $3.35 billion contract awarded in 2015, according to the carrier program’s Selected Ac- quisition Report for fiscal 2021. That underscores previous warnings that the fully outfit- ted carrier may exceed an $11.4 billion cost cap imposed by Con- gress. The contractor is falling short by a key measure of labor efficiency, the Navy said in the ‘Irresistible weapon’ report obtained by Bloomberg News. Its workforce performed 91 cents of work for every Navy dol- Historians say US accounts oversimplify atomic bombings on Japan lar spent in the last year, down from the more acceptable level Library of Congress Archives of 95 cents per dollar over the same timeframe, according to the BY JOSEPH DITZLER report. Huntington Ingalls also is fall- Stars and Stripes ing short of a Navy goal to reduce TOKYO cumulative labor hours by at least n spring and summer 1945, American politicians, 18% from the first ship. With the generals and scientists pondered how to best use vessel 69% complete, the Ken- the terrible power of the atomic bomb created by nedy is performing at a 16% im- the Manhattan Project in New Mexico. provement over the Ford at the I They deliberated killing tens of thousands of civil- same point, Capt. Danny Hernan- ians to end the war with Japan, attacks finally carried dez, a Navy spokesman, said in an out on the president’s authority. email. It’s been 75 years since the U.S. Army Air Force SEE CARRIER ON PAGE 7 dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. Both cities were basically leveled, and hundreds of thousands of people were killed or injured. $3.58B After Nagasaki, the Japanese realized further re- sistance was futile. They surrendered, but only on the The service’s estimate for condition that the emperor retain his throne. shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls The battleship USS Missouri steamed into Tokyo Industries to design and construct EUGENE HOSHIKO/AP Harbor, the surrender documents were signed, Gen. the USS John F. Kennedy, up 7% Above: The Atomic Bomb Dome is seen in Hiroshima, Japan, on Tuesday. The Douglas MacArthur called it good and the rest is from the $3.35 billion contract building was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996. At top: history. awarded in 2015, according to A photograph believed to have been taken from the B-29 bomber Enola Gay Not so fast. the carrier program’s Selected after it dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. SEE BOMBINGS ON PAGE 6 Acquisition Report for fiscal 2021. PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, August 6, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Military rates Switzerland (Franc) .............................. 0.9061 Virgin Atlantic files for US bankruptcy protection Euro costs (Aug. 6) ............................... $1.16 Thailand (Baht) ......................................... 30.98 Dollar buys (Aug. 6) ..........................€0.8235 Turkey (New Lira) ................................... 7.0355 British pound (Aug. 6) ......................... $1.28 Associated Press (Military exchange rates are those is part of a court process in the haul operator, including flights Japanese yen (Aug. 6) .......................103.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (Aug. 6) ...........1,161.00 United Kingdom to carry out a between the U.K. and the U.S. Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance NEW YORK — Virgin Atlan- for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the restructuring plan that the airline It stopped flying in April due to Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................... 0.3767 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For tic, the airline founded by British announced last month. The pro- the pandemic and only resumed British pound ........................................ $1.3150 businessman Richard Branson, Canada (Dollar) ...................................... 1.3248 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., cess is supported by a majority flights in July. It closed a base at China (Yuan) ........................................... 6.9362 purchasing British pounds in Germany), filed Tuesday for protection in of the airline’s creditors, and the London’s Gatwick Airport and cut Denmark (Krone) ................................... 6.2658 check with your local military banking U.S. bankruptcy court as it tries to Egypt (Pound)....................................... 16.0047 facility. Commercial rates are interbank company hopes to emerge from about 3,500 jobs. Euro ............................................ $1.1890/0.8410 rates provided for reference when buying survive the virus pandemic that is the process in September, she Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, Hong Kong (Dollar) ................................ 7.7503 currency. All figures are foreign currencies to one dollar, except for the British pound, hammering the airline industry. said. which owns 49% of the airline, Hungary (Forint) .................................... 289.98 Israel (Shekel) ........................................ 3.4054 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, The airline made the Chapter A Virgin Atlantic lawyer said agreed to defer payments it was Japan (Yen).............................................. 105.39 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) 15 filing in U.S. federal bankrupt- in a court filing that the company owed, and hedge fund Davidson Kuwait (Dinar) ........................................ 0.3055 INTEREST RATES cy court in New York after a pro- Norway (Krone) ..................................... 8.9604 needs an order from a U.S. court Kempner agreed to lend Virgin Philippines (Peso) .................................... 49.05 Prime rate ................................................3.25 ceeding in the United Kingdom. to make terms of the restructur- Atlantic 170 million pounds. Vir- Poland (Zloty) .............................................. 3.70 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 A spokeswoman for Virgin At- Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .............................. 3.7504 Federal funds market rate ................... 0.10 ing apply in the U.S. gin Atlantic also delayed deliver- Singapore (Dollar)................................. 1.3673 3-month bill ............................................. 0.10 lantic said the bankruptcy filing The airline is primarily a long- ies of Airbus jets. South Korea (Won) ............................ 1,185.54 30-year bond ...........................................1.24 WEATHER OUTLOOK THURSDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST THURSDAY IN EUROPE FRIDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 79/69 Kabul 97/64 Seoul 76/73 Baghdad 108/82 Kandahar 106/73 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 78/74 82/77 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 75/59 73/56 78/75 Iwakuni 82/78 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 99/96 Brussels 74/54 Guam 109/91 86/61 Ramstein 84/79 84/81 Lajes, 84/51 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 105/84 108/86 73/70 75/55 82/61 Aviano/ Vicenza 82/63 Naples 85/68 Okinawa Morón 83/80 106/69 Sigonella Rota 87/64 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 97/84 92/68 83/74 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 14 Classified .................. 13 Comics ...................... 18 Crossword ................. 18 Faces ........................ 15 Opinion .................16-17 Sports .................. 19-24 Thursday, August 6, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Sunken vehicle and troops’ remains found BY CAITLIN M. KENNEY ship. Eight Marines were rescued from needed to get to the vehicle off the seafloor The cause of the sinking is still under Stars and Stripes the sinking vehicle, though one died at the will be at the location by the end of the investigation. scene. Two more Marines were sent to a week, according to the Marine Corps. Gen. David Berger, commandant of the WASHINGTON — The bodies of ser- nearby hospital in critical condition. The The vehicle, which weighs about 26 tons, Marine Corps, announced Friday during vice members who were aboard an assault 15th MEU is based at Marine Corps Base had sunk to a depth of 385 feet almost a the briefing that he had suspended water amphibious vehicle last week when it sunk Camp Pendleton, Calif. mile from San Clemente Island, according operations for all assault amphibious ve- during a training exercise off the Cali- Seven Marines and a sailor missing with to the statement. hicles as a precaution until they determine fornia coast have been found, the Marine the vehicle were presumed dead Sunday When the assault amphibious vehicle what caused Thursday’s accident. Berger Corps announced Tuesday. after a search and rescue effort that lasted began