Volume 79, No. 80B ©SS 2020 CONTINGENCY EDITION SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2020 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas WhateverVIRUS OUTBREAK it takes Cadets adapt to training amid pandemic at West Point Page 5 Cadets wear masks as they listen to instructions on firing mortars Friday at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. MARK LENNIHAN / AP Ground robots could be the next generation of warfighter BY STEVE BEYNON ‘ This isn’t about robots, this Army officials said Thursday. Fort Carson, Colo. Stars and Stripes Troops with the 4th Squadron, 10th Army leaders said unmanned combat isn’t about technology. It’s Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat vehicles require soldiers to operate them WASHINGTON — The Army and Ma- about soldiers, reducing the Team, 4th Infantry Division have been at a relatively short distance away, roughly rine Corps are working on robots for the risk to our men and women. testing unmanned Bradley Fighting Ve- 1,500 to 2,000 meters depending on the ter- next generation of mechanized warfare ’ hicles and M113 armored personnel car- rain. But the ability for a cavalry unit to and troops are already testing their effec- Brig. Gen. Ross Coffman riers in platoon training events, including tiveness in combat and reconnaissance, on military development of ‘ground drones’ a live-fire exercise the past few weeks at SEE ROBOTS ON PAGE 4 MILITARY MILITARY MUSIC Salvage operation Failures of leadership under Not even global recovers remains investigation as Fort Hood pandemic can slow from sunken AAV chief’s transfer put on hold down BTS ‘Journey’ Page 3 Page 3 Page 14 Young players getting chances to shine during NHL restart » Back page PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, August 9, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Military rates Switzerland (Franc)........................... 0 .9147 S&P 500 ekes out gain following jobs report Euro costs (August 10) ........................ $1.16 Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 31.19 Dollar buys (August 10) ................... €0.8232 Turkey (Lira) .........................................7.2386 British pound (August 10) .................. $1.28 (Military exchange rates are those Associated Press the first time since February. less of the pandemic. Japanese yen (August 10) ................103.00 available to customers at military banking The Dow Jones Industrial Av- “The Chinese aren’t going to South Korean won (August 10) ....1,155.00 facilities in the country of issuance NEW YORK — Wall Street’s big Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the erage added 46.50, or 0.2%, to take this lightly,” said Quincy Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3769 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For rally let off the accelerator on Fri- 27,433.48. Krosby, chief market strategist at British pound .....................................$1.3043 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., day, despite a better-than-expect- Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3374 purchasing British pounds in Germany), Technology stocks fell, though, Prudential Financial. China (Yuan) ....................................... 6.9713 check with your local military banking ed report on the U.S. job market, Denmark (Krone) ................................6.3268 facility. Commercial rates are interbank on worries that China could re- The day’s headline economic Egypt (Pound) ....................................15.9714 rates provided for reference when buying amid worries about worsening taliate for President Donald report was an encouraging one Euro ........................................ $1.1772/0.8495 currency. All figures are foreign currencies U.S.-China tensions and whether Trump’s latest escalation against for investors: Employers added Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7504 to one dollar, except for the British pound, Hungary (Forint) .................................294.68 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, Washington can deliver more aid Chinese tech companies. The nearly 1.8 million jobs last month, Israel (Shekel) .................................... 3.4101 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) for the economy. Nasdaq composite dropped 97.09, about 185,000 more than econo- Japan (Yen) ...........................................105.83 The S&P 500 inched up 2.12 Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3056 or 0.9%, to 11,010.98 after setting mists had forecast. Analysts said Norway (Krone) ...................................9.0518 INTEREST RATES points, or 0.1%, to 3,351.28 to eke a record Thursday. It’s a rare they found some encouraging Philippines (Peso)................................. 49.05 Poland (Zloty) ...........................................3.74 Prime rate ................................................3.25 out a sixth straight gain, after stumble for big tech stocks, which trends throughout the report, Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7504 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 being down most of the day. It’s have soared on expectations they such as a stronger-than-expected Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3726 Federal funds market rate ...................0.09 South Korea (Won) ...........................1189.81 3-month bill .............................................0.09 back within 1% of its record for can keep raking in profits regard- rise in average hourly earnings. 30-year bond ...........................................1.20 WEATHER OUTLOOK SUNDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SUNDAY IN EUROPE MONDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 78/72 Kabul 99/64 Seoul 82/76 Baghdad 106/82 Kandahar 100/84 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 85/75 89/76 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 82/60 83/67 79/76 Iwakuni 82/79 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 98/93 Brussels 84/65 Guam 111/93 95/72 Ramstein 83/80 83/79 Lajes, 95/62 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 107/85 110/88 72/68 83/63 87/65 Aviano/ Vicenza 87/67 Naples 91/70 Okinawa Morón 85/82 102/67 Sigonella Rota 89/65 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 99/85 83/71 80/74 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 11 Books ...................12-13 Comics/Crossword ...... 15 Music ........................ 14 Opinion ..................... 17 Sports .................. 18-24 Technology & Gadgets ..16 Sunday, August 9, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 MILITARY Fort Hood chief’s transfer halted for investigation BY LOLITA C. BALDOR is a “sexual harassment-type Associated Press toxic environment that exists.” McCarthy said that will help the WASHINGTON — Army lead- Army “better understand more ers have delayed the planned broadly, is it 3rd ACR (Armored transfer of the Fort Hood com- Cavalry Regiment) or is it larger? mander, as a team of independent Is it the entire installation?” investigators heads to the base He acknowledged that there to determine whether leadership have been other deaths and inci- failures contributed to the mur- dents of violence that could point der of a soldier earlier this year, to broader problems. and several other deaths. In addition to Guillen’s murder, Maj. Gen. Scott Efflandt, com- the body of another Fort Hood mander of Fort Hood, Texas, was soldier, Pvt. slated to go to Fort Bliss, which Mejhor is near El Paso, and take over Morta, was leadership of the 1st Armored found last CURTIS KHOL, U.S. NAVY/AP Division. Command of a division month by Undersea Rescue Command deploys the Sibitzky Remotely Operated Vehicle from the deck of the is a key step in an Army officer’s Stillhouse Military Sealift Command-chartered merchant vessel HOS Dominator off the coast of Southern California career. The Army said in a state- Hollow on Aug. 2 . ment Friday that he will now stay Lake, a res- at Fort Hood, as Army leaders ervoir near consider whether there were sys- the base. temic problems at the base, and In June, of- Remains recovered from sunken who should be held accountable. ficials dis- Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen, 20, Efflandt covered the was killed and dismembered by a remains of another missing sol- USMC assault amphibious vehicle fellow soldier. She had been miss- dier, Gregory Morales, about 10 ing since April, and her remains miles from that lake. were found and identified last Once the independent panel’s Associated Press ing routine training, the military was identified as Marine Lance month. The soldier suspected in investigation is done, McCarthy said. Cpl. Guillermo S. Perez, 19, of Guillen’s slaying, Spc. Aaron Rob- said that if the panel’s conclusions SAN DIEGO — Authorities on The craft sank less than a mile New Braunfels, Texas. His body inson, shot and killed himself early “point to leaders or individuals, in Friday recovered the bodies of from San Clemente Island off the was flown to Dover Air Force last month as police were trying to particular, of course, we will take nine people killed when a Marine coast of San Diego. A diving and take him into custody. A civilian, the appropriate accountability” vehicle sank in hundreds of feet Base on Wednesday. salvage ship carrying special All of the Marines aboard were Cecily Aguilar 22, of Killeen, has measures. of water off the Southern Califor- equipment arrived on Thursday been arrested and charged with The five members of the inde- nia coast, authorities said. attached to the 15th Marine Ex- and recovered the bodies and the peditionary Unit of the 1 Marine allegedly helping Robinson dis- pendent review panel are: Chris The remains of seven Marines vehicle,