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Alaska Base Plays Big Role in Pivot to Russia, China MILITARY WAR FACES Seasoned fighter-jet Afghan rivals Ghani, ‘Hamilton’ actor Diggs gets pilot tapped to lead Abdullah agree to to try hand at sci-fi genre Pacific Air Forces power-sharing deal with TNT’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Page 3 Page 4 Page 15 Online: Get the latest news on the virus outbreak » stripes.com/coronavirus stripes.com Volume 79, No. 21 ©SS 2020 MONDAY, MAY 18, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas MILITARY Alaska base plays big role in pivot to Russia, China BY DAN LAMOTHE The Washington Post ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT OVER ALASKA — Lt. Col. Jason Monaco soared six miles above lush wilderness, his fighter jet streaking across the icy blue sky. He banked his two-seat F-16D to the right, shooting around an eight-jet formation maneu- vering against him and his fellow pilots. Gazing through a dark visor, he glimpsed his ad- versary’s jet for the first time. Then, bad news. “Well,” he said, “we just died.” Sporting a gray helmet with distinctive five- pointed red stars on each side symbolizing com- munism, Monaco looked like he could have SEE HORIZON ON PAGE 4 Air Force Lt. Col. Jason Monaco’s helmet sports the distinctive star of a communist nation as he flies an F-16D jet during training missions, a nod toward his unit’s role in replicating the threat of potential adversaries. DAN LAMOTHE/Washington Post VIRUS OUTBREAK European leaders: We can’t wait for vaccine to relax controls BY COLLEEN BARRY, PABLO GORONDI ‘ We have to Johnson came as nations around the world and can resume and shops reopen. AND KELVIN CHAN U.S. states are both struggling with restarting “We are facing a calculated risk, in the aware- Associated Press acknowledge economies blindsided by the pandemic. With 36 ness ... that the epidemiological curve could go we may need million newly unemployed in the U.S. alone, eco- back up,” Conte said late Saturday. “We are con- SOAVE, Italy — In separate, stark warnings, to live with this nomic pressures are building even as authorities fronting this risk, and we need to accept it, other- two major European leaders have bluntly told acknowledge that reopening risks new waves of wise we would never be able to relaunch.” their citizens that the world needs to adapt to liv- virus for some infections and deaths. Conte added that Italy could “not afford” to wait ing with the coronavirus and cannot wait to be time to come. ’ Pushed hard by Italy’s regional leaders and until a vaccine was developed. Health experts saved by the development of a vaccine. weeks in advance of an earlier timetable, Conte is say the world could be months, if not years, away The comments by Italian Prime Minister Gi- Boris Johnson allowing restaurants, bars and beach facilities to useppe Conte and British Prime Minister Boris British Prime Minister open Monday, the same day that church services SEE BLUNT ON PAGE 7 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Monday, May 18, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9721 US layoffs hit record high of 11.4M in March Euro costs (May 18) .............................. $1.06 Thailand (Baht) .....................................32.04 Dollar buys (May 18) ........................€0.8992 Turkey (Lira) .........................................6.9040 British pound (May 18) ........................$1.19 (Military exchange rates are those BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER dramatic as layoffs, which rose ers led with layoffs and hiring Japanese yen (May 18) ......................104.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (May 18) ..........1,198.00 Associated Press more than six-fold. The number of slowed, but not as dramatically as Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3773 open jobs dropped nearly 12%, to one might have expected.” Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For British pound .....................................$1.2118 WASHINGTON — U.S. lay- nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., 6.2 million. The number of hires The fact that job openings and Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.4108 purchasing British pounds in Germany), offs soared in March to a record declined 13%, to 5.2 million. hiring did not fall more in March China (Yuan) .........................................7.1021 check with your local military banking Denmark (Krone) ................................6.8938 11.4 million after state and local New data is revealing how the suggested companies held out facility. Commercial rates are interbank Egypt (Pound) ....................................15.7407 governments closed restaurants, severity of this downturn has hope that the recession would be Euro ........................................ $1.0814/0.9247 rates provided for reference when buying bars, movie theaters and other Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7515 currency. All figures are foreign currencies skewed the nature of U.S. reces- brief, and that they would soon to one dollar, except for the British pound, nonessential businesses in re- Hungary (Forint) .................................328.08 sions. In the pandemic, the lay- be able to return to previous job Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.5376 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, sponse to the intensifying corona- offs have been immediate and search and hiring plans. Data Japan (Yen) ........................................... 107.28 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) virus outbreak. massive. from job sites like Indeed, which Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3092 INTEREST RATES Norway (Krone) .................................10.2341 The Labor Department also “Workers lost jobs at a hor- are more current, indicated that Philippines (Peso).................................50.69 Prime rate ................................................3.25 said Friday that job openings rifying rate,” said Nick Bunker, job openings fell further in April, Poland (Zloty) ..........................................4.22 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7566 Federal funds market rate ...................0.05 plunged and hiring fell, though director of research at Indeed, a sign that businesses are bracing Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.4271 3-month bill ............................................. 0.12 those changes weren’t nearly as the job listings website. “Employ- for a lengthier slowdown. South Korea (Won) ......................... 1,232.50 30-year bond ...........................................1.32 WEATHER OUTLOOK MONDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST MONDAY IN EUROPE TUESDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 49/46 Kabul 70/51 Seoul 64/55 Baghdad 106/73 Kandahar 90/62 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 60/54 63/59 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 67/49 55/49 62/57 Iwakuni 67/63 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 87/79 Brussels 66/46 Guam 99/75 69/47 Ramstein 68/61 83/80 Lajes, 66/34 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 102/72 98/73 63/60 66/44 71/48 Aviano/ Vicenza 73/57 Naples 77/67 Okinawa Morón 78/74 81/58 Sigonella Rota 78/57 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 99/82 71/55 76/70 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 .................. 20-24 Monday, May 18, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Fighter pilot USAF reservist nominated to lead Pacific Air Forces qualifies to fly BY WYATT OLSON Stars and Stripes The deputy commander of U.S. forces in South Korea and a sea- soned fighter-jet pilot has been U-2 spy plane tapped to lead Pacific Air Forces and its roughly 46,000 airmen. Lt. Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach has BY CHAD GARLAND lines offering high-paying jobs. been nominated by President Stars and Stripes The U-2 pilot corps has lost “a Donald Trump for a fourth star fair amount” of its experienced and lead- An Air Force reservist has personnel, but while many of ership of qualified for the first time to fly them have switched to the re- Pacific Air the U-2 Dragon Lady, becoming serves, “we just haven’t had an Forces, which one of fewer than 1,500 people to avenue to train them up to fly the is headquar- pilot the iconic spy plane. aircraft until now,” Mundy said in tered at Joint Maj. Jeffrey Anderson, a for- a video Wednesday. Base Pearl mer active-duty U-2 pilot who The high-flying single-engine Harbor- switched to the reserves more jet, which entered service more Hickam, Ha- than two years ago, took a break than 60 years ago during the Cold waii, the Air from flying for Delta Air Lines War, is unique in the service. The Force said in to requalify on the aircraft, con- COLVILLE MCFEE/U.S. Air Force a statement Air Force has 33 airframes in its Wilsbach sidered among the hardest in the inventory. Air Force Maj. Jeffrey Anderson, 99th Reconnaissance Squadron Thursday. world to fly. Developed at the Lockheed pilot, receives U-2 suit preparations at Beale Air Force Base, Calif., The nomination requires con- “This is truly amazing,” An- Skunk Works in Burbank, Calif., on May 5 . firmation by the Senate. derson said in an Air Force state- the secretive facility that also The command is now headed ment last week. gave the world the SR-71 Black- sion, it was sad,” Anderson said. by Gen. Charles Brown Jr., who Officials at the 9th Reconnais- bird, B-2 Spirit stealth bomber ‘ This is truly “It was the right decision for my has been nominated for Air Force sance Wing out of Beale Air Force and F-117 Night Hawk stealth family to commit to the reserves chief of staff. Base, Calif., where the aircraft fighter, the Dragon Lady flew its amazing. ’ and didn’t have a slight thought of If confirmed, Wilsbach would are based, hope to qualify more early sorties spying on the Soviet Maj. Jeffrey Anderson being back here.” oversee a vast geographical area reservists in the coming years Union.
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