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SPORTS: Pandemic will change experience for fans Back page TRAVEL: Touring a gem Spike Lee’s tale of vets mine in Germany Page 23 returning to Vietnam feels urgent amid current crises MUSIC: The 1975’s Healy Movies, Pages 20-21 as complex as ever Page 32 stripes.com Volume 79, No. 40 ©SS 2020 FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2020 $1.00 AMERICA PROTESTS Milley says he was wrong to participate in church walk BY ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON — Army Gen. Mark Milley, the nation’s top mili- tary officer, said Thursday he was wrong to accompany President Donald Trump on a walk through Lafayette Square that ended in a photo op at a church. He said his presence “created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.” “I should not have been there,” the Joint Chiefs chairman said in remarks to a National De- fense University commencement ceremony. Trump’s June 1 walk through the park to pose with a Bible at a church came after authori- ties used pepper spray and flash bangs to clear the park and streets of largely peaceful protesters demonstrating in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Min- nesota in police custody. Milley said his presence and the photographs compromised Trump nixes renaming SEE MILLEY ON PAGE 8 President ‘will not even consider’ stripping Army posts of Confederate names BY COREY DICKSTEIN the Army, which has for decades defended the naming Congress Stars and Stripes of those posts during the Jim Crow era. In late Febru- ary, Army officials foot-stomped their unwillingness to advances bills WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump in a consider the issue, saying the names were rooted in the trio of tweets Wednesday afternoon appeared to quash “spirit of reconciliation” and not meant to honor any that would any chance that the Army could change the names of particular cause. set process 10 southern Army installations named for Confederate Army officials said McCarthy hoped to get congres- generals while he remains in the White House. sional support before he committed to any changes, to change “[M]y Administration will not even consider the re- though the service has the power to change the names names of naming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military In- of its installations without the input of lawmakers or bases stallations,” Trump wrote in his tweets, which did not other federal officials. ALEX BRANDON/AP mention the Confederacy. “Our history as the Greatest But the conversation appeared to end Wednesday. A Page 6 Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Nation in the World will not be tampered with. Respect defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, Mark Milley said Thursday his our Military!” said Wednesday afternoon that it was unlikely McCar- presence on a walk that ended Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Army Secre- thy or Esper would challenge Trump on the issue. Soldiers stand in a photo op at a church with tary Ryan McCarthy signaled this week that they were White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on in front of the President Donald Trump last open to a “bipartisan conversation” on the potential re- Wednesday called the issue an “absolute nonstarter” for Airborne Corps week created an incorrect naming of posts, as demonstrations spread across the Trump, adding the president would veto any legislation Headquarters sign perception about the military’s United States aimed at addressing systemic racism in passed that included direction to rename one or all of at Fort Bragg, N.C. involvement in domestic politics. the country. It marked a dramatic change in stance for SEE RENAMING ON PAGE 6 JOSHUA COWDEN/U.S. Army PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 12, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EUROPE GAS PRICES EXCHANGE RATES Country Super E10 Super unleaded Super plus Diesel Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9409 Germany $2.299 $2.697 $2.949 $2.659 Azores -- -- $2.972 -- Euro costs (June 12) .............................$1.11 Thailand (Baht) .....................................30.98 Change in price +6.2 cents +5.4 cents +4.8 cents +1.0 cents Change in price -- -- No change -- Dollar buys (June 12 .........................€0.8561 Turkey (Lira) .........................................6.8248 British pound (June 12) .......................$1.25 (Military exchange rates are those Netherlands -- $3.354 $3.568 $3.457 Belgium -- $2.834 $2.190 $2.252 Japanese yen (June 12) .....................105.00 Change in price -- +7.6 cents +7.9 cents +4.4 cents Change in price -- No change No change No change available to customers at military banking South Korean won (June 12) .........1,158.00 facilities in the country of issuance Commercial rates U.K. -- $2.607 $2.859 $2.569 Turkey -- -- $2.750 $2.460* for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3776 Change in price -- +5.4 cents +4.8 cents +1.0 cents Change in price -- -- +4.8 cents +1.0 cents Netherlands and the United Kingdom. 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T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ............40 Classified ......................... 41 Comics ..................38, 42-43 Crossword .............38, 42-43 Faces ............................... 39 Opinion .......................44-45 Sports .........................48-56 Weekend ..................... 17-38 Friday, June 12, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Base housing still has mold, maintenance problems BY ROSE L. THAYER Stars and Stripes Cleaning mold, reducing toxic exposure and providing mainte- nance still need improvement in the military’s ongoing efforts to provide safe housing for service members and their families, ac- cording to a watchdog report. Officials for the Defense De- partment’s inspector general re- viewed eight housing-related IG reports issued from 2014 to 2017 for its latest audit released Tues- day. The report stated that while progress has been made across a wide variety of concerns, there is still room for service officials to improve the quality of barracks and family housing available on military bases. In those eight reports, the IG made 110 recommendations and 19 remain open. The audit took a deeper look at “a nonstatistical sample of 16 rec- ommendations from five reports to assess whether policies and controls over the maintenance and inspection of government- owned and privatized housing were in place to ensure the safety of service members and their families,” according to the report. Out of the 16 recommendations that were reviewed in the audit, 10 still remain open. SCOTT T. STURKOL/U.S. Army “While several corrective ac- tions were taken related to health The South Post Family Housing area at Fort McCoy, Wis.. An audit released Tuesday found progress has been made on correcting mold and and safety policy for military maintenance problems in military housing but there is still room