MILITARY VIDEO GAMES COLLEGE FOOTBALL National Guard designates Spelunky 2 drops Air Force finally taking units in Alabama, Arizona players into the role the field for its first to respond to civil unrest of intrepid explorer game as it hosts Navy Page 4 Page 14 Back page Report: Nearly 500 service members died by suicide in 2019 » Page 3 Volume 79, No. 120A ©SS 2020 CONTINGENCY EDITION SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2020 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas Trump contracts COVID White House says president experiencing ‘mild symptoms’ By Jill Colvin and Zeke Miller Trump has spent much of the year downplaying Associated Press the threat of a virus that has killed more than WASHINGTON — The White House said Friday 205,000 Americans. that President Donald Trump was suffering “mild His diagnosis was sure to have a destabilizing symptoms” of COVID-19, making the stunning effect in Washington and around the world, announcement after he returned from an evening raising questions about how far the virus has fundraiser without telling the crowd he had been spread through the highest levels of the U.S. exposed to an aide with the disease that has government. Hours before Trump announced he killed a million people worldwide. had contracted the virus, the White House said The announcement that the president of the a top aide who had traveled with him during the United States and first lady Melania Trump week had tested positive. had tested positive, tweeted by Trump shortly “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for after midnight, plunged the country deeper into COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and uncertainty just a month before the presidential recovery process immediately,” Trump tweeted election. However, White House aides said he just before 1 a.m. “We will get through this was in good spirits and working in quarantine in TOGETHER!” the family quarters. SEE TRUMP ON PAGE 7 INSIDE: US hiring slows for 3rd month in sign of struggling economy Page 8 President Donald Trump returns to the White House in Washington from Bedminster, N.J., on Thursday . Yur i Gr ipas, Abaca Pr ess / TNS Trump tweets promise to undo gender-neutral language in SEAL statements Stars and Stripes Bugle, an account for self-described con- eral changes and are both posted online ture and among the most familiar to the servative political commentary. on the Naval Special Warfare Command American public. President Donald Trump promised in The Columbia Bugle, in tur n, linked back website. American Military News quoted a special a tweet Thursday to undo gender-neutral to a report Sept. 28 in the online Ameri- For example, an archived version of the warfare spokesman, Lt. Cmdr. Matthew language inserted recently into the official can Military News that the Naval Special SEAL ethos states, “I am that man.” The Stroup, as saying the previous versions of Navy SEAL ethos and combatant crew- Warfare Command had edited those state- new version states, “I am that warrior.” men creed. the SEAL ethos and the combatant crew- ments, replacing words like “man” in the The Navy Sea, Air, and Land Teams, man creed were written prior to changes Trump’s 7 a.m. announcement on Twit- Navy SEAL ethos, and “brotherhood” in also known as SEALs, are the primary in law permitting women to service as spe- ter was brief: “I will be overturning this ri- the creed of special warfare combatant- special operations force in the Navy. Of diculous order immediately!” and included craft crewmen. U.S. military special operators, they are cial operators. a link to another tweet by The Columbia The creed and the ethos underwent sev- among the most celebrated in popular cul- SEE LANGUAGE ON PAGE 6 PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 3, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Carnival cancels most US cruises for 2020 Military rates Switzerland (Franc) ...........................0.9206 Euro costs (Oct. 5) ................................$1.14 Thailand (Baht) .................................... 31.56 Dollar buys (Oct. 5)...............................€0.83 Turkey (Lira) ........................................7.7597 British pound (Oct. 5) .......................... $1.26 Associated Press (Military exchange rates are those might not sail from those ports in “Recent passenger voyages Japanese yen (Oct. 5) ........................103.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (Oct. 5) ............1,141.00 November and December. in foreign countries continue to Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance Carnival Cruise Line is cancel- for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the “As we have said throughout have outbreaks, despite cruise Bahrain (Dinar) ...................................0.3768 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For ing most U.S. sailings through the British pound ....................................$1.2927 this pause, our return to opera- ship operators having extensive nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., end of this year, the latest sign Canada (Dollar) ..................................1.3315 purchasing British pounds in Germany), tions will be gradual and phased health and safety protocols,” the China (Yuan) .......................................6.7907 that the cruise industry’s recov- check with your local military banking Denmark (Krone) ...............................6.3527 in,” Carnival President Christine CDC said. It noted cruise ships facility. Commercial rates are interbank ery from the coronavirus pan- Egypt (Pound) ...................................15.7495 rates provided for reference when buying demic could still be many months Duffy said in a statement. force people to share spaces that Euro ....................................... $1.1713/0.8538 currency. All figures are foreign currencies away. Carnival’s announcement came are more crowded than typical Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................7.7504 Hungary (Forint) ................................306.37 to one dollar, except for the British pound, The company said Thursday it a day after the U.S. Centers for urban settings. Israel (Shekel) ....................................3.4322 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, is canceling sailings from all ports Disease Control and Prevention The CDC said it knows of 3,689 Japan (Yen) ..........................................105.26 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) extended a ban on large cruises reported coronavirus cases and Kuwait (Dinar) ....................................0.3063 INTEREST RATES except its home ports of Miami Norway (Krone) ..................................9.3120 and Port Canaveral, Fla. Car- in U.S. waters through Oct. 31. 41 deaths linked to cruises in U.S. Philippines (Peso) ................................48.54 Prime rate ................................................3.25 nival said it will focus its initial The no-sail order, initially issued waters between March and Sep- Poland (Zloty) .........................................3.84 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ..........................3.7599 Federal funds market rate ...................0.09 return to operations on those two in March, had been set to expire tember. The agency said that is Singapore (Dollar) .............................1.3632 3-month bill .............................................0.09 ports, but it stressed that it still on Sept. 30. likely an undercount. South Korea (Won) ..........................1164.27 30-year bond ...........................................1.45 WEATHER OUTLOOK SATURDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SATURDAY IN EUROPE SUNDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 67/62 Kabul 77/46 Seoul 68/58 Baghdad 103/73 Kandahar 84/55 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 71/56 71/62 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 59/48 66/55 69/65 Iwakuni 75/70 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 91/87 Brussels 71/56 Guam 100/79 58/50 Ramstein 74/66 84/81 Lajes, 55/50 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 97/66 99/84 69/66 59/53 76/61 Aviano/ Vicenza 64/58 Naples 79/63 Okinawa Morón 81/78 72/49 Sigonella Rota 82/55 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 90/82 68/59 79/71 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ............ 11 Comics ............................. 15 Crossword ........................ 15 Entertainment ................... 12 Health and Fitness ............13 Opinion .......................16-17 Sports ......................... 18-24 Video Games .....................14 Saturday, October 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 MILITARY Report: Nearly 500 military suicides in 2019 BY CAITLIN M. KENNEY reflects the demographics of the Stars And Stripes overall military spouse popula- tion, which is mostly made up of WASHINGTON — Nearly 500 women younger than 40. service members in 2019 died Within the services, spouses of by suicide, with young enlisted National Guard service members men more likely to take their own had the highest rate — 13.4 per lives, according to an annual De- 100,000. The rate for spouses of fense Department report released active-duty service members was Thursday. 12.1. The counts and rate for the However, the overall number Reserve were not reported due to of military suicides, including low counts, according to a presen- active duty, National Guard, and tation on the report. Reserve troops, has dropped The report found the rate of from 541 in 2018 to 498 in 2019, male spouse suicide was 40.9 per according to the report. 100,000, which is statistically The Pentagon released the re- higher than U.S. males