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THE MASTERS FACES MILITARY Johnson shatters Visual project Navy nonprofit record while winning highlights legacy backs ecstasy his 1st green jacket of DJ Screw study for PTSD Back page Page 14 Page 3 Trial begins for extremist subdued by Americans on train » Page 5 stripes.com Volume 79, No. 152 ©SS 2020 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas USPS online VIRUS OUTBREAK customs form unpopular on overseas bases BY JENNIFER H. SVAN AND NANCY MONTGOMERY Stars and Stripes RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Ger- many — Online postal customs forms that were trumpeted as an innovation that would slash the time customers spend in line at the post office have instead prov- en to be a headache for customers and postal workers at U.S. mili- tary bases overseas. Many customers have struggled to complete the new, glitch-filled electronic forms, and military postal clerks are having to input data on the forms manually at the post office, leading to longer wait times for customers and longer working hours for the clerks. The problem, said military postal workers in Germany and Italy, is with the U.S. Postal Ser- vice website where customers try to fill out the new customs decla- ration form. “It’s not user-friendly at all,” said Senior Airman Ronnie Craw- ford, a postal clerk at the North- side Post Office on Ramstein Air HANS PENNINK/AP Base, Germany. Forms have been kicked back Nurse Kathe Olmstead prepares a shot that is part of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health if “road” or “street” are abbrevi- and Moderna Inc., in Binghamton, N.Y., on July 27. Moderna said Monday its COVID-19 shot provides strong protection against the ated, Crawford said. coronavirus that’s surging in the U.S. and around the world. SEE USPS ON PAGE 3 A shot in the arm 2nd COVID-19 vaccine shows overwhelming success in US tests BY LAURAN NEERGAARD RELATED announced its own COVID-19 vaccine ap- Associated Press peared similarly effective — news that US military reports 9 new puts both companies on track to seek per- Moderna said Monday its COVID-19 mission within weeks for emergency use vaccine is proving to be highly effective NANCY MONTGOMERY/Stars and Stripes cases at bases in Japan in the U.S. in a major trial, a second dash of hope in The results are “truly striking,” said Customers line up outside the the global race for a shot to tame a resur- Page 4 Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s U.S. Army Garrison post office gent virus that is killing more than 8,000 top infectious diseases expert. Earlier in Vicenza, Italy, on Nov. 7. people a day worldwide. Older students at Aviano this year, Fauci said he would be happy Mailing parcels has become The company said its vaccine appears with a COVID-19 vaccine that was 60% more time-consuming since the to be 94.5% effective, according to pre- return to online learning effective. post office switched to online liminary data from Moderna’s ongoing customs forms. study. A week ago, competitor Pfizer Inc. Page 5 SEE SHOT ON PAGE 6 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Tuesday, November 17, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES GM recalling nearly 69K electric cars for fire risk Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9133 Euro costs (Nov. 17) ............................. $1.16 Thailand (Baht) .....................................30.22 Dollar buys (Nov. 17) ........................€0.8230 Turkey (Lira) .........................................7.7253 British pound (Nov. 17) ........................$1.29 Associated Press (Military exchange rates are those cars should be parked outdoors fic Safety Administration an- Japanese yen (Nov. 17) ......................103.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (Nov. 17) .........1,080.00 until the recall repairs have been nounced that it was investigating Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance DETROIT — General Motors for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the made. the fires. The agency said in doc- Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For is recalling nearly 69,000 Chev- British pound .....................................$1.3184 Until a permanent fix is devel- uments filed last month that the nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3086 rolet Bolt electric cars worldwide purchasing British pounds in Germany), oped, dealers will install software fires began under the rear seat China (Yuan) ....................................... 6.5848 check with your local military banking because the batteries have caught Denmark (Krone) ................................6.2967 that limits charging to 90% of the while the cars were parked and facility. Commercial rates are interbank fire in five of them. Egypt (Pound) ....................................15.6391 battery’s capacity, Bolt Execu- unattended. Euro ........................................$1.1828/0.8455 rates provided for reference when buying The company said Friday that tive Chief Engineer Jesse Ortega Ortega said engineers have Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7534 currency. All figures are foreign currencies to one dollar, except for the British pound, it doesn’t know yet what’s causing said. traced the fires to Bolts with bat- Hungary (Forint) .................................303.77 Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.3685 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, the fires, but engineers are work- The recall covers Bolts from tery cells made at an LG Chem Japan (Yen) ...........................................104.60 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) ing to figure it out. Two people the 2017 through 2019 model factory in Ochang, South Korea, Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3060 INTEREST RATES have suffered smoke inhalation Norway (Krone) ...................................9.0875 years, including nearly 51,000 in from May of 2016 to May of 2019. Philippines (Peso)................................. 48.17 Prime rate ................................................3.25 due to the fires and a house was the United States . The fires have happened when Poland (Zloty) ..........................................3.79 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7503 Federal funds market rate ...................0.09 set ablaze. It comes one month after the the batteries were close to being Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3469 3-month bill .............................................0.09 U.S. safety regulators said the U.S. National Highway Traf- fully charged, he said. South Korea (Won) ..........................1,108.03 30-year bond ...........................................1.65 WEATHER OUTLOOK TUESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST TUESDAY IN EUROPE WEDNESDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 59/37 Kabul 52/29 Seoul 69/63 Baghdad 75/51 Kandahar 59/36 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 69/62 68/43 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 58/51 50/47 71/65 Iwakuni 70/52 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 86/76 Brussels 50/45 Guam 79/63 55/46 Ramstein 72/59 86/79 Lajes, 53/37 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 88/61 88/75 60/55 54/37 53/38 Aviano/ Vicenza 60/41 Naples 66/56 Okinawa Morón 79/73 76/53 Sigonella Rota 71/56 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 87/76 73/56 69/55 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ....... 9 Classified .................. 13 Comics ...................... 16 Crossword ................. 16 Faces ........................ 14 Opinion .................10-11 Sports .................. 18-24 Tuesday, November 17, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Navy nonprofit backs ecstasy study for PTSD BY CHAD GARLAND Stars and Stripes JENNIFER H. SVAN/Stars and Stripes A nonprofit that supports Military postal clerks Staff Sgt. Kaela Roberts and Senior Airman Ronnie Crawford work the finance Navy special operations troops window at the Ramstein Northside Post Office at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on Friday . and their families has pledged $50,000 to back research into the use of the main component of the USPS: Online customs form causes drug ecstasy to help treat post- traumatic stress disorder. The grant made by the Navy headaches for postal customers overseas SEAL Foundation to the Multi- disciplinary Association for Psy- chedelic Studies is expected to FROM FRONT PAGE also strained overseas military forms was supposed to be a last assist with large-scale trials of post offices already dealing with resort once the online forms were the psychoactive drug MDMA, Some customers who try to also known as Molly, coupled changes and delays caused by the introduced Sept. 3. pay online have had their trans- with psychotherapy. It was made coronavirus, increased volume Mark Heeter, a spokesman for actions blocked “because it flags in partnership with author, entre- for postal voting, and now the be- Drug Enforcement Agency that they’re overseas,” he said. Installation Management Com- preneur and podcaster Tim Fer- Sometimes, the system doesn’t ginning of holiday mail traffic. mand-Europe, said the command Aurelio Campos, chief of op- riss, who has already contributed The Navy SEAL Foundation has recognize a U.S. postal address, was aware of the problem but around $1 million to MAPS, the pledged $50,000 to support said Master Sgt. D’Andre Brod- erations at the Military Postal didn’t have a concrete solution to Service