MILITARY MILITARY NATION North Korea won’t Soldier killed by Thousands still without power trade nukes for roadside bomb in after severe storms ravage lifting of sanctions Afghanistan ID’d parts of Southeast, Midwest Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Clemson’s versatile ‘D’ could challenge LSU in championship » Back page stripes.com Volume 78, No. 191 ©SS 2020 MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas Ballistic logistics Iran’s strike on US forces exposes challenge Pentagon faces stopping missile attacks BY DAN LAMOTHE The Washington Post or more than an hour, the mis- siles knifed in with a whoosh, explosions bursting in the night sky. It wasn’t clear when they’d stop, or what they’d hit. FU.S., coalition and Iraqi troops hunkered down for the Iranian attack in Iraq on Tuesday night had prepared over several days for such an onslaught following the U.S. drone strike in Baghdad that killed Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian general with involvement in the deaths of hundreds of U.S. troops, according to U.S. officials. But the attack highlighted an ongo- ing challenge for the Pentagon: For all its might, the U.S. military had little ability to stop such a missile attack once it was underway. SEE CHALLENGE ON PAGE 4 U.S. Army Spc. Justin Wittig stands in front of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, last year. There were no THAADs postitioned to defend against Iran’s attack in Iraq on Tuesday. ADAN CAZAREZ/U.S. Army Army to send unit to Pacific to aid efforts to counter China BY TONY CAPACCIO The pivot includes greater Army participation in U.S. carrier groups away from that develops and manages U.S. Bloomberg the Asian mainland, McCarthy spy satellites, he said. Under that regional war games like the “Defender Pacifi c” said in an interview. It’s not clear accord, Army tactical units will The U.S. Army will expand ef- series and deploying a “Security Force Assistance how quickly the unit, which likely be better able to tap into informa- forts to counter China by deploy- Brigade” in the Indo-Pacifi c theater next year. would be based on islands east of tion from existing and future low- ing a specialized task force to the Taiwan and the Philippines, can Earth-orbit satellites, he said. Pacific capable of conducting in- be deployed. The pivot would help Defense formation, electronic, cyberspace The move is designed to “neu- Secretary Mark Esper achieve day, also would be equipped to hit vessels in the event of conflict. and missile operations against tralize all the investments China a long-sought American goal of land- and sea-based targets with The Army task force would Beijing. and Russia have made,” McCar- shifting more forces from Eu- The unit, which Army Secre- long-range precision weapons help neutralize some capabilities thy said. It would be bolstered rope, the Middle East and Africa tary Ryan McCarthy detailed at such as hypersonic missiles, pos- China and Russia already pos- by a new agreement with the an event in Washington on Fri- sibly clearing the way for Navy sess that are intended to keep National Reconnaissance Office SEE CHINA ON PAGE 5 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Monday, January 13, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Aramco’s IPO hits record $29.4B with new option Military rates Switzerland (Franc) ........................... 0.9746 Euro costs (Jan. 13) ..........................$1.1397 Thailand (Baht) ....................................30.24 Dollar buys (Jan. 13) .........................€0.8774 Turkey (New Lira) ..............................5.8739 British pound (Jan. 13) ........................$1.34 Associated Press (Military exchange rates are those tial public offering process. world’s largest ever. Japanese yen (Jan. 13) ...................... 107.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (Jan. 13) ..........1,133.00 The oil and gas company, which The shares sold in the over-al- Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance DUBAI, United Arab Emirates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the is majority-owned by the state, Bahrain (Dinar) ...................................0.3769 lotment option “had been allocat- Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For — Saudi Arabian oil giant Ar- British pound ....................................$1.3065 began publicly trading on the nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., ed to investors during the book Canada (Dollar) ..................................1.3046 amco announced Sunday that its purchasing British pounds in Germany), local Saudi Tadawul exchange China (Yuan) ....................................... 6.9214 building process and therefore, check with your local military banking initial public offering raised a re- Denmark (Krone) ...............................6.7327 on Dec. 11. It hit upwards of $10 facility. Commercial rates are interbank no additional shares are being of- Egypt (Pound) ...................................15.9936 cord $29.4 billion, a figure higher a share on the second day of trad- rates provided for reference when buying fered into the market today,” Ar- Euro ....................................... $1.1101/0.9008 than previously announced after ing. This gave Aramco a market Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................7.7662 currency. All figures are foreign currencies amco said. to one dollar, except for the British pound, the company used a so-called capitalization of $2 trillion, mak- Hungary (Forint) ................................300.84 Company shares traded down Israel (Shekel) ....................................3.4683 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, “greenshoe option” to sell mil- ing it comfortably the world’s Japan (Yen) ..........................................109.59 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) lions more shares to meet inves- most valuable company. on Sunday, dipping to around Kuwait (Dinar) ....................................0.3035 INTEREST RATES tor demand. 34.7 riyals, or $9.25 a share, amid Norway (Krone) .................................. 8.9022 Aramco’s additional sales mean Philippines (Peso) ................................50.55 Prime rate ................................................4.75 The company said that the the company has publicly floated heightened tensions in the Per- Poland (Zloty) .........................................3.82 Discount rate ..........................................2.25 sian Gulf between Iran and the Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ..........................3.7516 Federal funds market rate ...................1.55 sale of an additional 450 million 1.7% of its shares. It’s IPO, even Singapore (Dollar) .............................1.3495 3-month bill ............................................. 1.51 shares took place during the ini- before the added sales, was the United States. South Korea (Won) .........................1,159.21 30-year bond ...........................................2.28 WEATHER OUTLOOK MONDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST MONDAY IN EUROPE TUESDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 34/39 Kabul 28/24 Seoul 31/24 Baghdad 59/41 Kandahar 33/30 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 33/26 48/39 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 49/39 41/38 40/31 Iwakuni 47/44 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 62/58 Brussels 41/37 Guam 63/45 48/43 Ramstein 44/41 83/80 Lajes, 42/38 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 63/35 63/53 63/60 44/37 34/30 Aviano/ Vicenza 43/30 Naples 53/41 Okinawa Morón 68/65 55/37 Sigonella Rota 51/42 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 78/75 57/39 55/51 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 11 Classified .................. 13 Comics ...................... 15 Crossword ................. 15 Faces ........................ 14 Opinion ..................... 16 Sports ...................17-24 Monday, January 13, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY First all-female team takes win Looking Rosie at Aviano in bomb-building competition BY NORMAN LLAMAS Stars and Stripes AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy — They Could Do It! For the first time since Aviano began hosting its quarterly bomb-building com- petition, an all- female team entered — and won. The team, called the Bouncing Bettys, completed the Rapid Aircraft Generation and Employment competition last week. All of the Bouncing Bettys dressed as Rosie the Riveter, the World War II icon whose image appeared on posters pro- claiming, “We Can Do It!” The posters were used to recruit women to work in fac- tories and shipyards to produce munitions and war supplies. The RAGE competition included six evaluated events: a written test, stockpile practices, trailer configuration and re- configuration, air cargo palletization and a weapons-build, said U.S. Air Forces in Eu- rope and Air Forces Africa in a Facebook post congratulating the team on their win. The competition is a relatively new event, first held in October. Officials at Aviano could not immedi- ately answer Stars and Stripes inquiries about the competition, but details of the team and the event were included in cap- tions on pictures taken by Airman 1st Class Ericka Woolever, a public affairs airman at the base’s 31st Fighter Wing. The Bouncing Bettys were Staff Sgt. Ana L. Merkel, a munitions inspector; Staff Sgt. PHOTOS BY ERICKA A. WOOLEVER/U.S. Air Force Catharyn M. Clyde, a munitions control supervisor; Staff Sgt. Nicole D. Jarvis, an U.S. airmen of the all-female “Bouncing Bettys’’ team of the 31st Munitions Squadron and the 731st Munitions Squadron NCOIC of conventional munitions support; compete at the