MILITARY VIDEO GAMES VIRUS OUTBREAK Army amends AWOL policy Creaks might melt DOD says transmission risk after numerous high-profile your brain, but it’s on crowded airplanes with disappearances at Fort Hood beautiful, whimsical people wearing masks low Page 3 Page 13 Page 5 Correa’s ninth-inning homer helps Astros stave off elimination » Back page Volume 79, No. 130A ©SS 2020 CONTINGENCY EDITION Saturday, October 17, 2020 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas ELECTION 2020 Army’s V Corps back in action as presence grows in Poland BY JOHN VANDIVER Stars and Stripes STUTTGART, Germany — The Army’s storied V Corps offi- cially reactivated Friday during a ceremony at Fort Knox, Ky., and a small portion of the unit is al- ready on the ground in Poland to take up a new mission. “We currently have a hand- ful of V Corps troops stationed in Poland and will continue to build capacity throughout the year,” U.S. Army Europe said in a statement. Full rotations to Poland will begin in the 2022 fiscal year, USAREUR said. The military announced in February that it was reforming V Corps to bring more command and control support to an expand- ing Army mission in Europe. In September, the Army selected Poznan, Poland, as the site for a command post. The U.S. and Poland are still working through red tape before fully launching the mission in Poznan, Defense Secretary Mark Esper indicated Thursday. “We EVAN VUCCI/AP (left); CAROLYN KASTER/AP also plan to rotate forward the lead element of the Army’s new V Left: President Donald Trump appears at the NBC News town hall at Perez Art Museum Miami on Thursday. Right: Former Vice President Corps into Poland once the appro- Joe Biden attends the ABC News town hall at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Thursday. priate agreements are finalized,” he said during a speech at the an- nual meeting of the Association of RELATED the U.S. Army in Washington. The reactivation of V Corps will More than bring the Army much-needed Dueling at a distance manpower to manage operational 17 million planning and mission command, Americans and oversee various rotational Candidates offer different messages, style in town hall meetings forces maneuvering around in have cast Europe. Its main headquarters BY JONATHAN LEMIRE, WILL WEISSERT his core base. will remain at Fort Knox under AND DARLENE SUPERVILLE He was defensive about his administration’s handling their votes, the command of Lt. Gen. John. Associated Press of the coronavirus, which has claimed more than 217,000 S. Kolasheski, but 200 out of the lives in the United States, and evasive when pressed shattering unit’s 635 soldiers will be on rota- WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and about whether he took a required COVID-19 test before tion in Poznan at any given time. Democrat Joe Biden squared off, in a way, in dueling his first debate with Biden. Angry and combative, Trump records V Corps has a long history in televised town halls that showcased striking differences refused to denounce the QAnon conspiracy group — and Page 8 Europe, dating to 1918 when it in temperament, views on racial justice and approaches only testily did so regarding white supremacists. was activated during World War to a pandemic that has reshaped the nation. The Republican president also appeared to acknowl- I. It activated again for World Coming just two and a half weeks before Election Day, edge revelations from a recent New York Times report War II and was a fixture in Ger- the events Thursday night offered crystalizing contrasts that he was in debt and left open the possibility that some many during the Cold War. It also and a national, if divided, audience. But it seemed un- of it was owed to a foreign bank. But he insisted that he supported the Army during the likely to have produced a needed moment for a president didn’t owe any money to Russia or any “sinister people” conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan running out of time or opportunities to appeal beyond SEE CANDIDATES ON PAGE 8 SEE CORPS ON PAGE 4 PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 17, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES GM to run robot cars in Calif. without humans Military rates Switzerland (Franc) ........................... 0.9131 Euro costs (Oct. 19) ..............................$1.15 Thailand (Baht) .................................... 31.15 Dollar buys (Oct. 19) .............................€0.83 Turkey (Lira) ........................................7.9365 Associated Press fornia, where it already has a permit to run without British pound (Oct. 19) ........................ $1.26 (Military exchange rates are those Japanese yen (Oct. 19) ......................103.00 available to customers at military banking human backups. South Korean won (Oct. 19) ..........1,115.00 facilities in the country of issuance DETROIT — General Motors’ Cruise autonomous Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Cruise has reached the point where it’s confident Bahrain (Dinar) ...................................0.3771 vehicle unit says it will pull the human backup driv- Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For British pound ....................................$1.2903 that it can safely operate without humans in the nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., ers from its vehicles in San Francisco by the end of Canada (Dollar) ..................................1.3202 purchasing British pounds in Germany), cars, spokesman Ray Wert said. There’s no date for China (Yuan) .......................................6.6964 the year. check with your local military banking Denmark (Krone) ...............................6.3446 starting a ride service, which would require further facility. Commercial rates are interbank Cruise CEO Dan Ammann said in a statement Egypt (Pound) ...................................15.7007 rates provided for reference when buying that the company got a permit Thursday from Cali- government permission, he said. Euro ....................................... $1.1730/0.8525 currency. All figures are foreign currencies Cruise will go neighborhood-by-neighborhood in Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................7.7503 fornia’s Department of Motor Vehicles to let the cars to one dollar, except for the British pound, Hungary (Forint) ................................311.24 San Francisco and launch the driverless vehicles which is represented in dollars-to-pound, travel on their own. Israel (Shekel) ....................................3.3783 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) The move follows last week’s announcement from slowly before spreading to the entire city, he said. It Japan (Yen) ..........................................105.34 will hold neighborhood meetings to answer people’s Kuwait (Dinar) ....................................0.3061 INTEREST RATES Waymo that it would open its autonomous ride-hail- Norway (Krone) ..................................9.3633 ing service to the public in the Phoenix area in ve- questions, he said. “We understand that this is a Philippines (Peso) ................................48.68 Prime rate ................................................3.25 hicles without human drivers. trust race as much as it is a technology race,“ Wert Poland (Zloty) .........................................3.89 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ..........................3.7508 Federal funds market rate ...................0.09 Waymo, a unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc., is said. “This is absolutely about making sure that Singapore (Dollar) .............................1.3584 3-month bill ............................................. 0.11 hoping to eventually expand the service into Cali- we’re doing this with San Francisco.” South Korea (Won) ..........................1142.86 30-year bond ...........................................1.52 WEATHER OUTLOOK SATURDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SATURDAY IN EUROPE SUNDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 61/49 Kabul 75/48 Seoul 64/42 Baghdad 92/65 Kandahar 73/38 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 64/41 59/51 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 52/43 48/44 66/52 Iwakuni 68/61 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 8784X Brussels 45/42 Guam 93/70 49/43 Ramstein 69/60 85/82 Lajes, 52/39 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 89/61 92/73 66/63 47/43 49/43 Aviano/ Vicenza 56/42 Naples 64/54 Okinawa Morón 79/76 73/48 Sigonella Rota 68/53 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 92/76 69/59 77/73 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. 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So I think that’s a very, very Stars and Stripes “It’s really a mindset issue,” ers who might know their where- by a fellow soldier April 22 in an profound thing, and it’ll make our McConville told reporters dur- abouts or any issues with which arms room on the installation. policy much tighter and more WASHINGTON — Soldiers ing a telephone news briefing. the soldier might be coping, Mc- Her dismembered remains were sustainable.” who fail to report for duty will not “It could be a lot of reasons why Conville said. not found until June 30, about