MILITARY VIRUS OUTBREAK MUSIC Navy adds 23 more jobs FDA warns malaria Post Malone inspires to the list of specialties drug can cause cardiac blind devotion among eligible for incentive pay rhythm side effects fans like few others Page 3 Page 5 Page 12 49ers acquire Pro Bowl LT Williams from Redskins » Sports briefs, Page 21 Volume 79, No. 5B ©SS 2020 CONTINGENCY EDITION SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 2020 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK Poll: Most losing jobs during pandemic think they’ll return post-crisis Page 4 A man walks past a shuttered business in Philadelphia, Thursday. Online: Get the latest news on the virus outbreak » stripes.com/coronavirus Matt Rourke / AP Pentagon defers decision on carrier captain’s future BY DAN LAMOTHE coronavirus outbreak on his ship, defense dore Roosevelt and its former commander, ficial, said administration officials wanted The Washington Post officials said Friday. Navy Capt. Brett Crozier. more time to review their options. The delay comes after the Pentagon’s Several other defense officials said they Hoffman said in a statement that Esper WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has chief spokesman, Jonathan Rath Hoff- expected a conclusion to be announced af- had received a “verbal update” from se- deferred a decision about the future of an man, told reporters earlier in the day that terward. But as the afternoon wound down, nior Navy officials about the inquiry into aircraft carrier captain who was relieved senior Navy officials would brief Defense the Navy acknowledged that no decision the Theodore Roosevelt outbreak. of command after he raised concerns Secretary Mark Esper about an inquiry was forthcoming. Two people familiar with about the Navy’s handling of a sprawling into what happened with the USS Theo- the issue, including one senior defense of- SEE DECISION ON PAGE 3 PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, April 26, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................ 0.9744 Wall Street ends manic week with a gain Euro costs (April 27) ............................ $1.05 Thailand (Baht) .....................................32.43 Dollar buys (April 27) ....................... €0.9036 Turkey (Lira) .........................................6.9789 British pound (April 27) .......................$1.20 (Military exchange rates are those Associated Press Japanese yen (April 27) .....................105.00 available to customers at military banking outbreak. The bond market was The S&P 500 still lost 1.3% for South Korean won (April 27) ........ 1,204.00 facilities in the country of issuance quiet, while crude prices climbed the week as worries about the Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the NEW YORK — In a manic again. economic damage dealt by the Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3781 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For week full of previously unthink- British pound ....................................$ 1.2332 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., The gains offered a soothing coronavirus outbreak outweighed Canada (Dollar) .................................. 1.4080 purchasing British pounds in Germany), able market moves, Wall Street China (Yuan) ....................................... 7.0771 check with your local military banking coda for a wild week, which began hopes that businesses could soon facility. Commercial rates are interbank Denmark (Krone) ................................6.9065 ended Friday with one reminis- with Monday’s astonishing plum- reopen. That snapped the first rates provided for reference when buying cent of what things were like Egypt (Pound) ....................................15.7903 currency. All figures are foreign currencies met for oil and carried through two-week winning streak for the Euro .........................................$1.0797/0.9262 to one dollar, except for the British pound, before the coronavirus outbreak Thursday’s sudden disappear- S&P 500 since it began selling off Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7504 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, upended everything. Hungary (Forint) .................................329.33 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) ance of a morning stock rally . in February. Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.5132 The S&P 500 glided to a gain of “The market sort of feels like The S&P 500 added 38.94 Japan (Yen) ........................................... 107.53 1.4%, with Apple, Microsoft and Kuwait (Dinar) ..................................... 0.3107 INTEREST RATES Dorothy coming to the crossroads points to 2,836.74. The Dow Jones Norway (Krone) .................................10.6476 other technology stocks leading and has yet to meet the scarecrow Industrial Average rose 260.01, Philippines (Peso)................................ 50.79 Prime rate ................................................3.25 the way, as they did so many times to tell her which way to go,” said or 1.1%, to 23,775.25, and the Nas- Poland (Zloty) ......................................... 4.20 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7608 Federal funds market rate ...................0.05 before the economy shut down in Sam Stovall, chief investment daq composite added 139.77, or Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.4255 3-month bill ............................................. 0.15 hopes of slowing the spread of the strategist at CFRA. 1.7%, to 8,634.52. South Korea (Won) ...........................1233.55 30-year bond ...........................................1.20 WEATHER OUTLOOK SUNDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SUNDAY IN EUROPE MONDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 46/42 Kabul 74/51 Seoul 57/39 Baghdad 79/63 Kandahar 91/53 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 57/40 62/50 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 62/38 53/38 60/44 Iwakuni 57/50 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 87/81 Brussels 53/43 Guam 93/76 60/39 Ramstein 61/48 83/80 Lajes, 61/40 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 97/77 105/80 60/57 63/41 57/42 Aviano/ Vicenza 63/51 Naples 63/53 Okinawa Morón 69/65 64/55 Sigonella Rota 68/50 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 88/80 63/57 63/55 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 17 Comics/Crossword ...... 14 Gadgets & Tech ..........15 Music ....................12-13 Opinion ..................... 18 Sports .................. 20-24 Sunday, April 26, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 MILITARY Navy expands sea-duty incentive eligibility BY WYATT OLSON news release said. fication code, qualifying second Stars and Stripes With 1,445 confirmed cases of class petty officers and below who coronavirus as of Friday morn- qualify could receive up to $750 The Navy has added nearly two ing, the Navy is the hardest hit of for each additional month spent at dozen job categories for which America’s military services. sea. First class petty officers and sailors are eligible for sea-duty Sailors assigned to the carrier above could receive $1,000 per bonus pay, an expansion done to USS Theodore Roosevelt account month, the news release said. ensure operations will continue for 840 of those cases. The ship Sailors who wish to extend sea during the coronavirus epidemic, has been sidelined in Guam since duty can either choose a billet at the Navy said. late March as it deals with the their current command, or choose Twenty-three new ratings were contagion. one at a new command, according added to an existing list of those Sailors testing positive for the to the Navy. In doing so, sailors eligible to receive sea-duty incen- virus have been found in another must commit to serve one to four tive pay for extending current 26 Navy ships now in port, a Navy years in that billet. tours at sea or returning to sea official speaking on the condi- Requests for extension should early, the Navy said in a news re- tion of anonymity told Stars and lease Wednesday. Stripes on Wednesday. be made more than 14 months The additions bring the total Among the newly added rates prior to a sailor’s projected rota- number of ratings eligible for the qualifying for incentive pay tion date. bonus to just under 120. are: aviation ordnanceman, cu- The Navy established the sea- “The move was done to ensure linary specialist, cryptologic duty incentive pay in 2007 and the Navy continues to fill opera- technician, engineman, gunner’s has since made numerous ad- JOMARK ALMAZAN/U.S. Navy tional requirements for sea-going mate, machinery repairman and ditions and deletions of eligible commands, particularly in this steelworker. billets. Gunner’s Mate Seaman Jose Garciaflores and Gunner’s Mate 3rd challenging time brought on by Depending on the rating, pay- [email protected] Class Anne Canta work on a .50-caliber machine gun aboard the the [coronavirus] pandemic,” the grade and Navy enlisted classi- Twitter: @WyattWOlson USS America in the Philippine Sea earlier this month. Decision: Delay comes amid speculation on Crozier’s reinstatement FROM FRONT PAGE sailors for supporting him. Cro- “After the Secretary receives zier, Modly said, had either writ- a written copy of the completed ten the memo to be leaked to the inquiry, he intends to thoroughly media, or was “too naive or too review the report and will meet stupid” to be commanding officer again with Navy leadership to of the ship. discuss next steps,” Hoffman Modly later apologized. said. “He remains focused on and Trump, as commander in chief,