Trump Takes Victory Lap After Acquittal, President Unleashes Fury at Impeachment
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MILITARY FACES AUTO RACING What will members ‘Honeyland’ makes Change looming as new of newly established Oscars history with NASCAR season arrives Space Force be called? its 2 nominations with Daytona 500 Page 3 Page 17 Back page Heavy ground forces are the best deterrent, analysis finds » Page 8 Volume 78, No. 210 ©SS 2020 CONTINGENCY EDITION FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2020 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas President Donald Trump holds up a newspaper reporting the outcome of his impeachment trial at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday at the Washington Hilton. EVAN VUCCI/AP Trump takes victory lap After acquittal, president unleashes fury at impeachment Page 10 US-Iraqi military alliance not broken, but showing strain BY SAMYA KULLAB there said, came not from the constellation and intensified demands that American sociated Press — a sign that authorities AND QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA of militant sleeper cells embedded in the troops leave the country. are serious about rethinking the strategic Associated Press landscape but further afield in Iran. Since then, Iraqi leaders have scaled relationship. U.S. forces in Iraq have been on guard back the saber-rattling rhetoric. But be- At stake are vital U.S.-provided weap- BAGHDAD — A new watchtower rose for retaliation by Iran or its Shiite militia hind closed doors, the bitterness has poi- ons, military technologies and aircraft over an American military base in north- allies since the U.S. killed Iran’s top gener- soned the partnership. The government that have been key in countering the ern Iraq, and cranes lifted hefty slabs of al in Iraq with an airstrike in Baghdad last told the Iraqi military not to seek U.S. help threat of ISIS militants trying to make concrete to reinforce the barricades in month. The Jan. 3 strike also fueled a wave in operations fighting Islamic State, two a comeback in northern and western beefed-up protections. 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T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 18 Comics ...................... 21 Crossword ................. 21 Faces ........................ 17 Opinion ................ 22-23 Sports .................. 25-32 Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 MILITARY DOD mulls name for Space Force members BY COREY DICKSTEIN from the language department space operations to officially ning transfer processes.” Stars And Stripes at the Air Force Academy, from transfer into the new service by Thompson also said planners the Defense Language Institute the end of 2020, according to the are deciding on criteria for how WASHINGTON — The newly and they have conducted crowd- report provided to Congress on Space Force members will be established Space Force will sourcing with troops expected to Monday and obtained by Stars judged for promotion, as airmen grow from one member to an es- transfer into the Space Force to and Stripes. The officials expect will compete with longtime mem- timated 15,000 to 16,000 troops in determine what their service’s space operators now serving in bers of the Army and the Navy, the coming years, but it remains equivalent will be to soldiers, sail- the Army and Navy will begin which use different criteria for SETH ROBSON/Stars and Stripes unclear what Space Force mem- ors, airmen, Marines and Coast transferring into the Space Force advancing their troops. bers will be called. Guardsmen. A space operations occupational in fiscal year 2022. While troops working in space Space Force planners are tak- They have made a few deter- badge . The transfer process is some- operations, which includes space ing the naming of their troops minations on what Space Force what complicated, and Thompson intelligence, space engineering, very seriously, said Air Force Lt. members will not be called. medical, logistics and security said it will take some time to sort space communications, and space Gen. David Thompson, who is as- Thompson ruled out naming them troops, Thompson said. it out to ensure it is done smoothly acquisition, among other jobs, signed as the vice commander of “spacemen” or “space cadets.” But it will still be months be- and “everyone gets paid,” once it will be expected to transfer into the Space Force. He declined to identify names fore the Space Force has actual is completed. the Space Force, they will not be “It’s something we’ve spent that officials are considering. troops. Now, about 16,000 per- The report lays out the trans- forced to do so, Thompson said. some serious time and energy on,” It is just one aspect of many sonnel — about 3,400 Air Force fer process for troops who will “As a general principle, if you Thompson told reporters Wednes- unknowns that remain in the de- officers, 6,200 enlisted airmen join the Space Force: “To do so, are in space operations — offi- day at the Pentagon. “There are a velopment of the first new mili- and some 8,000 civilians — are those members will formally cers