NFL MILITARY FACES Offensive production Audit: US Embassy in Harvey relishes off the charts in first Kabul paid $8.4M for show’s revival on 3 weeks of season meals it didn’t need Facebook Watch Back page Page 4 Page 15 F-35B crashes after colliding with refueler over California » Page 3 stripes.com Volume 79, No. 119 ©SS 2020 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas Chaos in Cleveland Taunts overpower visions at first debate Associated Press CLEVELAND — The first de- bate between President Donald Trump and Democratic chal- lenger Joe Biden deteriorated into bitter taunts and near chaos Tuesday night as Trump repeatedly interrupted his op- ponent with angry — and per- sonal — jabs that sometimes overshadowed the sharply dif- ferent visions each man has for a nation facing historic crises. In the most tumultuous presi- dential debate in recent memo- ry, Trump refused to condemn white supremacists who have supported him, telling one such group known as Proud Boys to “stand back, stand by.” There were also heated clashes over the president’s handling of the pandemic, the integrity of the election results, deeply per- sonal attacks about Biden’s family and how the Supreme Court will shape the future of the nation’s health care. President Donald Trump Former Vice President Joe Biden SEE DEBATE ON PAGE 7 AP photos HBO series depicts life for military families on US base in Italy BY JENNIFER H. SVAN ily arrive after a trans-Atlantic flight to of many living on U.S. bases overseas, in- ing up when her dad was in the Air Force. Stars and Stripes find some of their luggage has been lost. cluding a few former military dependents She’s now an Air Force spouse and mom at The 14-year-old son, Fraser Wilson, sulks who now have kids of their own. Ramstein. RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — on the ride to base while the friendly wife The show premiered in September on Schaar said she’s excited to see the show The opening scenes of the new HBO com- of the family’s sponsor makes an awkward HBO Max in the U.S. and is set to debut with her daughter. Hopefully, the show will ing-of-age series about military teenagers Oct. 9 on Sky Atlantic in Europe. help her daughter “understand her world living on a U.S. base in Italy depict a very attempt at small talk. “I think it gives us a piece to relate to, is so much bigger because of her experi- relatable government-sponsored move The eight-episode “We Are Who We that there’s other people out there doing ences,” she said. overseas. Are,” co-written and directed by Italian the same thing,” said Brandie Schaar, who The new base commander and her fam- Luca Guadagnino, has caught the attention spent time in Germany and England grow- SEE DRAMA ON PAGE 5 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, October 1, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Disney to lay off 28K workers at Calif., Fla. parks Military rates Switzerland (Franc) .............................. 0.9238 Euro costs (Oct. 1) ................................ $1.14 Thailand (Baht) ......................................... 31.65 Dollar buys (Oct. 1) ...........................€0.8325 Turkey (New Lira) ................................... 7.7697 Associated Press Disney’s parks closed last team had cut expenses, suspended British pound (Oct. 1) ..........................$1.25 (Military exchange rates are those Japanese yen (Oct. 1) ........................103.00 available to customers at military banking spring as the pandemic started South Korean won (Oct. 1) ............1,141.00 facilities in the country of issuance projects and modified operations Commercial rates ORLANDO, Fla. — Squeezed for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the spreading in the U.S. The Florida Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................... 0.3770 but it wasn’t enough given limits Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For by limits on attendance at its British pound ........................................ $1.2857 parks reopened this summer, but nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., on the number of people allowed Canada (Dollar) ....................................... 1.3379 theme parks and other restric- purchasing British pounds in Germany), the California parks have yet to re- China (Yuan) ........................................... 6.8073 into the park because of social check with your local military banking tions due to the pandemic, The open as the company awaits guid- Denmark (Krone) ................................... 6.3658 distancing restrictions and other facility. Commercial rates are interbank Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday it ance from the state of California. Egypt (Pound)....................................... 15.7609 pandemic-related measures, he Euro ............................................ $1.1697/0.8549 rates provided for reference when buying planned to lay off 28,000 workers In a letter to employees, Josh Hong Kong (Dollar) ................................ 7.7502 currency. All figures are foreign currencies in its parks division in California said. Hungary (Forint) ..................................... 311.92 to one dollar, except for the British pound, D’Amaro, chairman of Disney which is represented in dollars-to-pound, Disney officials said the compa- Israel (Shekel) ......................................... 3.4292 and Florida. Parks, Experience and Product, Japan (Yen)............................................... 105.72 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) Two-thirds of the planned lay- said California’s “unwillingness ny would provide severance pack- Kuwait (Dinar) ........................................ 0.3064 INTEREST RATES offs involve part-time workers but to lift restrictions that would allow ages for the employees, where Norway (Krone) ..................................... 9.4602 Philippines (Peso) ................................... 48.48 Prime rate ................................................3.25 they ranged from salaried em- Disneyland to reopen” exacerbat- appropriate, and also offer other Poland (Zloty) .............................................. 3.88 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 ployees to hourly workers, Disney services to help workers with job Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .............................. 3.7511 Federal funds market rate ...................0.09 ed the situation for the company. Singapore (Dollar)................................. 1.3680 3-month bill .............................................0.09 officials said. D’Amaro said his management placement. South Korea (Won) ............................ 1,168.07 30-year bond ........................................... 1.41 WEATHER OUTLOOK THURSDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST THURSDAY IN EUROPE FRIDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 66/55 Kabul 75/54 Seoul 73/58 Baghdad 100/68 Kandahar 79/40 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 72/59 73/64 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 56/51 60/50 76/65 Iwakuni 73/67 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 95/88 Brussels 55/52 Guam 95/79 56/53 Ramstein 74/64 84/81 Lajes, 59/48 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 98/70 103/81 69/66 62/47 56/52 Aviano/ Vicenza 62/54 Naples 70/61 Okinawa Morón 82/79 81/61 Sigonella Rota 77/64 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 92/82 71/62 75/69 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 14 Classified .................. 13 Comics ...................... 17 Crossword ................. 17 Faces ........................ 15 Opinion ..................... 16 Sports .................. 18-24 Thursday, October 1, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Pearl Harbor shooter showed prior signs of being a threat BY CAITLIN M. KENNEY workers, three months before the shooting, Stars and Stripes Romero then but only with a behavioral health used the pis- technician and not the clinic’s WASHINGTON — Navy inves- tol to shoot psychologist. He never expressed tigators said they were unable himself and threats of violence or suicidal to determine why a seaman shot died at the thoughts during his visits, ac- three civilians at Pearl Harbor scene. Secu- cording to the report. Naval Shipyard in December rity forces “No one could not have reason- before turning the gun on him- responded ably predicted Romero’s violent self despite the sailor displaying to the scene behavior on Dec. 4, 2019, but he a number of risk factors leading within one did demonstrate potential risk up to the incident, according to a Romero minute and indicators that should have been report released Tuesday. medical ser- reported to supervisors,” the re- “The evidence does not estab- vices responded within six min- port states. lish with certainty why [Seaman utes, according to the report. Investigators concluded the Gabriel A.] Romero chose to “The shooting only lasted a few mental health clinic had underdi- shoot three civilians and kill him- seconds from beginning to end,” agnosed his mental health condi- self, but it does show that he had MARQUES FRANKLIN/U.S. Navy the report states. tion, did not properly manage his several stressors in his life in the Romero was considered an mental health during his visits to Boatswain’s Mate 3rd Class Journey Rohmeyer signals a helicopter months leading up to the shooting “insider threat,” according to the the clinic and did not work with that, when taken together, likely to land on the flight deck of the guided-missile destroyer USS Stout report, and the investigators de- his command to let them know led him to choose violence. No ef- on May 21. termined he had “long-developing about his ability