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MILITARY WORLD FACES Navy displays Hundreds dead Comedic actor tech, power on in Haiti after Wayans takes turn updated carrier powerful quake for the dramatic Page 3 Page 12 Page 18 Diamondbacks’ Gilbert throws no-hitter in first career start ›› MLB, Page 24 stripes.com Volume 80 Edition 86 ©SS 2021 MONDAY,AUGUST 16, 2021 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas IT’S AFGHANISTANOVER US Embassy personnel evacuated, Afghan president flees country as Taliban enter Kabul Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan —Afghanistan’s embattled presi- A Chinook helicopter flies over the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, dent left the country Sunday, joining his fellow citizens and Afghanistan, on Sunday as foreigners in a stampede fleeing the advancing Taliban diplomatic vehicles leave the and signaling the end of a 20-year Western experiment compound amid the Taliban advance on the Afghan capital. aimed at remaking Afghanistan. RAHMAT GUL/AP SEE EVACUATED ON PAGE 7 US diplomats depart on short notice Page 6 Illicit deals, desertions mark Afghan military failure Page 8 PAGE 2 • STARS AND STRIPES • Monday, August 16, 2021 BUSINESS/WEATHER Former ski exec pleads guilty to 1 charge EXCHANGE RATES Military rates South Korea (Won) 1,163.47 Switzerland (Franc) 0.9153 Euro costs (Aug. 16) $1.15 Thailand (Baht) 33.31 Associated Press Stenger’s lawyer Brooks McAr- failed plan to build the biotechnolo- Dollar buys (Aug. 16) 0.8284 Turkey (New Lira) 8.5254 British pound (Aug. 16) $1.35 BURLINGTON, Vt. — A former thur said after the hearing that Mia- gy plant in Newport, Vt., using mil- Japanese yen (Aug. 16) 108.00 (Military exchange rates are those available Vermont ski resort president plead- mi businessman Ariel Quiros, the lions raised through the EB-5 pro- South Korean won (Aug. 16) 1,139.00 to customers at military banking facilities in the Commercial rates country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Ger ed guilty Friday to providing false former owner of Jay Peak and gram. The visa program encourag- many, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Bahrain (Dinar) 0.3770 For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., pur documents during a failed plan to Burke Mountain Resort, and his ad- es foreigners to invest in U.S. pro- Britain (Pound) 1.3869 chasing British pounds in Germany), check with Canada (Dollar) 1.2518 your local military banking facility. Commercial build a biotechnology plant in New- visor William Kelly, were career jects that create jobs in exchange China (Yuan) 6.4774 rates are interbank rates provided for reference Denmark (Krone) 6.3044 port using tens of millions of dollars con men and fraudsters who took for a chance to earn permanent U.S. Egypt (Pound) 15.7011 when buying currency. All figures are foreign in foreign investors’ money. advantage of Stenger, who said he residency. Euro 0.8478 currencies to one dollar, except for the British Hong Kong (Dollar) 7.7823 pound, which is represented in dollarsto In exchange for the guilty plea had spent his life trying to improve The AnC-Bio project was de- Hungary (Forint) 298.86 pound, and the euro, which is dollarstoeuro.) Israel (Shekel) 3.2156 from William Stenger, the former the economic conditions in the signed to raise $110 million from 220 Japan (Yen) 109.59 INTEREST RATES president of Jay Peak Resort, the Northeast Kingdom region of Ver- immigrant investors to construct Kuwait (Dinar) 0.3007 Norway (Krone) 8.7958 Prime rate 3.25 federal government dropped nine mont. and operate the biotechnology facil- Philippines (Peso) 50.59 Interest Rates Discount rate 0.75 Poland (Zloty) 3.87 Federal funds market rate 0.09 other fraud charges. The 72-year- In 2019, Quiros, Stenger and Kel- ity, according to proceedings and Saudi Arabia (Riyal) 3.7507 3month bill 0.06 old faces up to five years in prison. ly were indicted criminally over a documents. Singapore (Dollar) 1.3550 30year bond 1.95 WEATHER OUTLOOK MONDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST MONDAY IN EUROPE TUESDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 69/64 Kabul 85/50 Seoul 82/68 Baghdad 104/82 Osan Tokyo Kandahar Drawsko 82/68 70/67 98/68 Mildenhall/ Pomorskie Busan Lakenheath 72/60 79/76 67/55 Iwakuni Kuwait City Bahrain 79/74 109/85 Zagan Sasebo 98/95 Brussels Ramstein 75/64 79/76 Guam 64/58 72/51 84/81 Riyadh Lajes, 105/81 Doha Azores Stuttgart 106/59 74/71 69/66 Pápa Aviano/ 89/71 Vicenza 87/69 Naples 89/74 Okinawa Morón 84/81 110/74 Sigonella Rota 97/75 The weather is provided by the Djibouti 90/68 Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 103/89 80/75 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. TODAY IN STRIPES American Roundup ...... 11 Classified .................... 13 Comics .........................16 Crossword ................... 16 Faces .......................... 18 Opinion ........................ 14 Sports .................... 19-24 Monday, August 16, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 3 MILITARY Navy shows off power, tech on updated carrier BY WYATT OLSON — the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th — Stars and Stripes within U.S. Fleet Forces Com- ABOARD THE USS CARL mand, U.S. Pacific Fleet and U.S. VINSON NEAR HAWAII — The Naval Forces Europe. About 36 U.S. Navy exhibited the working vessels, from carriers to subma- parts of its Large-Scale Exercise rines and including the Carl Vin- 2021 on Saturday, a display of son, are taking part in Large-Scale technology and sea power the Na- Exercise 2021. PHOTOS BY WYATT OLSON/Stars and Stripes vy’s highest-ranking officer said The Carl Vinson and some of its A tiltrotor CMV22B Osprey lands on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson, on Saturday, as the carrier makes its worldwide fleet too for- strike group spearheaded 3rd steamed north of Hawaii during LargeScale Exercise 2021. midable and too diffuse to chal- Fleet’s portion of the exercise lenge. near Hawaii. As part of the exer- dented, I would say,” Capt. P. “It’s a big ocean, the Pacific. cise, the 3rd Fleet command de- Scott Miller, commander of the That’s a lot of battle space,” Adm. ployed from San Diego to a tent Carl Vinson, told reporters Satur- Michael Gilday, chief of naval op- complex at Joint Base Pearl Har- day. erations, told reporters aboard the bor-Hickam. “It’s an evolution of what naval aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. Gilday gushed over the virtual aviation is doing,” he said. “From “So, we want to come at a potential core of the exercise — computer- my perspective as the aircraft CO, adversary from many different generated scenarios and “ene- it’s been fairly seamless, integrat- vectors, not just on the sea, but in mies” — and its utility. ing those forces together.” the air, under the sea, on the land “We can take geography — let’s The carrier air wing includes — the Marine Corps — in space say geography in Northeast Asia about 70 airplanes, Cmdr. Tim Os- and in cyberspace.” — and superimpose it wherever borne, the vessel’s air boss, told The generic-sounding, world- we want, where we have ships op- reporters. wide Large-Scale Exercise 2021 erating,” for example, he said. From his perch above the flight crossed all those domains, with “And then we can also add in Adm. Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations, talks with reporters in deck, Osborne oversees the live and virtual training, “leverag- virtual ships into that same bat- the hangar deck of the USS Carl Vinson. launching and retrieval of all air- ing everything we have in the tool- tlespace so it’s a much more ro- craft and tracks them up to 10 kit to present a very formidable bust, much more realistic training grade has turned the Carl Vinson lection of aircraft on the Carl Vin- miles from the carrier. threat to anybody that might try to for the kind of operations we want into the Navy’s cutting-edge carri- son as “the air wing of the future.” The flight tempo has varied dur- hold our interests at risk,” Gilday to do,” he said. er. Its flight deck has been retro- Its other embarked aircraft in- ing the exercise, from 50 up to 125, said. This approach to training leaves fitted to accommodate F-35C clude EA-18G Growlers, F/A-18E he said. The exercise started Aug. 3 and potential adversaries facing “a ho- Lightning II stealth fighters and and F-18F Super Hornets and the “Today we’re looking at about concludes Monday. It took place listic, numerically superior and CMV-22B Osprey tiltrotor air- E-20 Advanced Hawkeye. 105 sorties total,” he said. across 17 time zones and involves highly trained force,” he said. craft. “Deploying with this part of the elements of five numbered fleets In the real world, a lengthy up- The Navy has dubbed the col- ‘air wing of the future’ is unprece- [email protected] 14 countries compete in Army sniper contest in Germany BY IMMANUEL JOHNSON gade and the Vilseck, Germany-based 2nd Stars and Stripes Cavalry Regiment. GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — Three Sanchez said planning for the event start- U.S. military sniper teams joined soldiers ed in October 2020 and continued until from 13 other countries in Germany this three weeks before it began. The 2020 com- month to show off their shooting skills, learn petition was canceled because of the coro- new techniques and vie for the title of best navirus pandemic. sniper team. Cpl. Chris Hawley, another competitor The European Best Sniper Team Compe- with Washington-based 3rd Battalion, 161st tition, hosted by U.S.