MILITARY FACES OLYMPICS Services work together Harrison’s masterpiece Americans to play to get critically injured gets remix for delayed for gold medal in soldier off Army ship milestone anniversary men’s basketball Page 3 Page 14 Page 24 Marines to replace fitness test crunches with planks by 2023 ›› Page 5 stripes.com Volume 80 Edition 80 ©SS 2021 CONTINGENCY EDITION FRIDAY,AUGUST 6, 2021 Free to Deployed Areas ‘Tougher BONHOMME RICHARD FIRE than boot camp’ at Olympics First Coast Guardsman to compete in Games addresses mental stress BY SETH ROBSON Stars and Stripes ENOSHIMA, Japan — The first U.S. Coast Guardsman to compete in the Olympics said athletes in Tokyo face a tougher mental chal- lenge than recruits in boot camp. Lt. j.g. Nikki Barnes, 27, became the first Coast Guardsman to represent the United States at the Olympics in any sport when she and crew- mate Lara Dall- OMAR POWELL//U.S. Navy man-Weiss, 32, Barnes Sailors and federal firefighters respond to the blaze aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego on of Shoreview, July 13, 2020. The ship, which burned for four days, was so extensively damaged that it had to be scrapped. Minn., began sailing in the Wom- en’s 470 class last week. Reflecting on the Olympic ex- perience after missing out on a medal, the native of St. Thomas in Navy accuses SEAL school dropout the U.S. Virgin Islands said she’ll apply the lessons she learned in Japan in her Coast Guard career. “It’s my first Games,” she said, of starting blaze that destroyed ship shortly before the men’s 470 race Wednesday. “People tell you there are so many distractions, but I BY WYATT OLSON extinguished four days after it be- Seaman Apprentice didn’t believe them until I came Stars and Stripes gan on July 12, 2020, while the am- Ryan Sawyer Mays here.” The sailor charged with setting phibious assault ship was docked poses for a photo that The stress faced by Olympic the fire and destroying the USS in San Diego, according to the 33- accompanied a social athletes was highlighted last week Bonhomme Richard last summer page affidavit filed in U.S. District media post he made on June 14, 2020, that when U.S. gymnast Simone Biles had previously dropped out of Court in the Southern District of read, “I love the smell withdrew from several events, lat- training to become a Navy SEAL California on Sept. 3, 2020. of napalm in the er attributing the decision to a after only five days and held a In the affidavit, which had re- morning.” mental health issue. grudge against the service, ac- mained sealed until Tuesday, in- Naval Criminal Investigative Service The biggest challenge for cording to an affidavit filed by an vestigators asked the court for ac- Barnes was the mental fatigue investigator seeking a search war- cess to Mays’ social media ac- from filtering others’ thoughts and rant in the case. counts. comments to concentrate on rac- Seaman Apprentice Ryan Saw- The Navy announced last week yer Mays, 20, became an arson SEE MENTAL ON PAGE 7 suspect soon after the blaze was SEE DROPOUT ON PAGE 7 PAGE 2 • STARS AND STRIPES • Friday, August 6, 2021 BUSINESS/WEATHER Nintendo sales drop after pandemic hit game EXCHANGE RATES Military rates South Korea (Won) 1142.86 Associated Press Sales of the Switch consoles 1.26 million in April-June, for cu- Switzerland (Franc) .9068 Euro costs (Aug. 6) $1.16 Thailand (Baht) 33.25 TOKYO — Nintendo’s April- dropped nearly 22% during the mulative sales of 33.9 million. Dollar buys (Aug. 6) 0.8234 Turkey (NewLira) 8.5381 British pound (Aug. 6) $1.36 June profit declined 13% from the quarter to 4.45 million units, More than 89 million of the Japanese yen (Aug. 6) 106.00 (Military exchange rates are those available same period the previous year, mainly because of the sales de- Switch machines have been sold South Korean won (Aug. 6) 1114.00 to customers at military banking facilities in the Commercial rates country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Ger­ when the hit game “Animal Cross- cline of the smaller Switch Lite, so far around the world, according many, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Bahrain(Dinar) .3770 For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., pur­ ing: New Horizons” dramatically dedicated to handheld playing. to Nintendo. Britain (Pound) 1.3912 chasing British pounds in Germany), check with Canada (Dollar) 1.2499 your local military banking facility. Commercial boosted sales. The regular Switch works for both But analysts don’t expect such China(Yuan) 6.4625 rates are interbank rates provided for reference Denmark (Krone) 6.2818 Nintendo Co.’s profit for the fis- traditional at-home and portable fortunes to last as normal activ- Egypt (Pound) 15.7376 when buying currency. All figures are foreign cal first quarter totaled $843 mil- play. ities resume with vaccine rollouts. Euro .8447 currencies to one dollar, except for the British Hong Kong (Dollar) 7.7774 pound, which is represented in dollars­to­ lion, down from $968 million, the “Animal Crossing,” released in That change is expected to hurt Hungary (Forint) 299.13 pound, and the euro, which is dollars­to­euro.) Israel (Shekel) 3.2116 Japanese maker of “Super Mario” March last year, didn’t sell as well Nintendo, which tends to attract Japan (Yen) 109.70 INTEREST RATES and “Pokemon” games said this year as it did in the April-June casual game users, more than ri- Kuwait(Dinar) .3005 Norway (Krone) 8.8129 Prime rate 3.25 Thursday. quarter the previous year, when vals such as Sony and Microsoft, Philippines (Peso) 50.46 Interest Rates Discount rate 0.75 Poland (Zloty) 3.84 Federal funds market rate 0.10 Quarterly sales fell 10% to $2.9 10 million units were snatched up. which have products that draw so- Saudi Arabia (Riyal) 3.7502 3­month bill 0.05 billion. “Animal Crossing” sales totaled called core gamers. Singapore (Dollar) 1.3512 30­year bond 1.84 WEATHER OUTLOOK FRIDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST FRIDAY IN EUROPE SATURDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 80/74 Kabul Seoul 91/55 88/75 Baghdad 113/82 Osan Tokyo Drawsko Kandahar Mildenhall/ 90/75 82/74 101/65 Pomorskie Busan Lakenheath 67/57 84/79 70/59 Iwakuni Kuwait City 83/80 Bahrain Zagan Sasebo Guam 111/93 99/92 Brussels Ramstein 71/58 85/79 69/61 67/59 84/81 Riyadh Lajes, 110/85 Doha Azores Stuttgart 108/87 72/69 68/59 Pápa Aviano/ 75/57 Vicenza 73/63 Naples 82/69 Okinawa Morón 83/80 99/64 Sigonella Rota 95/69 The weather is provided by the Djibouti 77/68 Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 98/83 87/72 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. TODAY IN STRIPES American Roundup ...... 13 Comics .........................16 Crossword ................... 16 Faces .......................... 14 Opinion ........................ 15 Sports .................... 17-24 Friday, August 6, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 3 MILITARY Records: Pentagon slaying suspect had troubled past Associated Press ing to arrest reports and court fil- WASHINGTON — As officials ings. seek clues about what prompted a After the homeowner provided Georgia man to fatally stab a Pen- the video to law enforcement, tagon police officer, details of the Lanz was arrested and booked on suspect’s troubled past emerged charges of burglary and trespass- Wednesday through interviews ing charges. When informed he and court records. was being charged, Lanz objected Austin William Lanz, 27, was to the arresting officer, saying, arrested last April for a break-in “but I didn’t take anything,” ac- at a neighbor’s home and drew cording to the arrest report. He police attention months earlier then went on to make statements for an ongoing harassment cam- to a police officer about how paign involving sexually explicit planes had been photos and messages, according flying over the to interviews and records ob- neighborhood U.S. Army tained by The Associated Press. and tracking his Service members at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, build an apparatus for dropping medical supplies to Investigators have not revealed cellphone. a critically injured soldier aboard a vessel at sea on July 25. a motive in the ambush-style kill- As he was be- ing of Pentagon police officer Ge- ing processed at orge Gonzalez. But Lanz’s past the county jail, Services work together to get critically brushes with the law, as well as Lanz, who was neighbors’ accounts of recent me- Lanz listed as 6 feet, 3 nacing behavior, appear to sug- inches tall and injured soldier off Army ship near Palau gest the violence was more likely roughly 190 pounds, is alleged to BY ALEX WILSON the act of a troubled, violence- have attacked two sheriff’s depu- Stars and Stripes prone individual than part of a ties in the intake area without A joint effort by four service broader conspiracy. provocation, including one who branches ended with a critically “I wish there was a better way sustained a chipped bone and injured U.S. soldier successfully to address those mental health is- torn ligament in her knee. After retrieved from an Army vessel in sues that people have,” said Phil- he was restrained, Lanz reported- the Pacific on July 26, according to lip Brent, who shared a backyard ly accused the officers of being the Air Force. fence with Lanz in Georgia and “gay” for teaming up on him and The soldier was injured aboard describes repeated harassment asked to be uncuffed so he could the vessel off the coast of Angaur, directed at himself and his then- fight them one-on-one.