FACES MILITARY COLLEGES Lambert leads Allies say Russia Athletes finding the way with 7 violated NATO their voices amid CMA nominations airspace social unrest Page 14 Page 3 Back page RIMPAC ends with ships, aircraft sinking retired Navy vessel » Page 7 stripes.com Volume 79, No. 98 ©SS 2020 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas VIRUS OUTBREAK After 75 years, WWII legacies soldier on, living ‘Leading through uncertainty’ memories fade BY JOSEPH DITZLER Stars and Stripes TOKYO — History profes- sor Cord Scott likes this analogy when he tries to relate current events to World War II for his students. “We’re watching ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ or, if you like to read, we’re picking up a Stephen King novel and we’re starting at page 450,” Scott said during an Aug. 26 interview. In other words, the legacy of World War II is still rippling through world events and influ- encing history. Even though the war ended 75 years ago, and its warriors are down to a relative handful, the world is still de- fined in many ways by what they accomplished. Much of what remains from the war is obvious: rusted tanks on lonely Pacific islands or crum- bling pillboxes above French beaches. Still relevant but less tangible are institutions like NATO, the Department of De- fense and the United Nations, ele- TREVOR COKLEY, U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY/AP ments of the world as ordered by U.S. Air Force Academy cadets start the school year with a class held outdoors last month in Colorado Springs, Colo. World War II. Until recently, knowledge of the war and its legacy passed be- tween generations; but as the last At military academies, COVID-19 eyewitnesses to that history leave the scene, that knowledge resides is the enemy cadets aim to defeat instead in books and classrooms. “To be honest, some students can’t identify groups we fought BY LOLITA C. BALDOR two sections, so every student against in World War II,” Scott Associated Press could attend in person. Down the said. “At times I’ve had to go hall another instructor, flanked through and reestablish the ANNAPOLIS, Md. — As by chemistry equipment, stands eight Navy midshipmen file into basics.” in front of two computers teach- Scott and David Harmon, both their economics class, instruc- ing in an empty classroom. And tor Kurtis Swope points to the another instructor sits in her of- SEE LEGACIES ON PAGE 5 antibacterial wipes on the desk. fice, talking to a grid of camo- “Did you grab wipes?” he asks, clad students on her laptop. then tells each one to take two, Under the siege of the coro- wipe down the desk when they navirus pandemic, classes have For US troops in arrive and again when they begun at the Naval Academy, leave. “That should be your the Pacific, end of the Air Force Academy and JULIO CORTEZ/AP process.” the U.S. Military Academy at As chairman of U.S. Naval A midshipman uses a sanitizing wipe to clean her desk before war deepened the Academy’s economics depart- West Point. But unlike at many the start of a leadership class last month at the U.S. Naval ache for home ment, Swope broke his class into SEE ACADEMIES ON PAGE 9 Academy in Annapolis, Md. Page 4 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, September 2, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Amazon wins FAA approval to deliver by drone Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9063 Euro costs (Sept. 2) .............................. $1.17 Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 31.09 Dollar buys (Sept. 2) .........................€0.8126 Turkey (Lira) .........................................7.3570 British pound (Sept. 2) ........................ $1.31 (Military exchange rates are those BY JOSEPH PISANI drones to make deliveries to goods and are designed to deliv- Japanese yen (Sept. 2) ......................103.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (Sept. 2) ..........1,155.00 facilities in the country of issuance Associated Press shoppers. er items in 30 minutes by drop- Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770 The online shopping giant has ping them in a backyard. At the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For British pound .....................................$1.3437 NEW YORK — Getting an nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., been working on drone delivery time, an Amazon executive said Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3046 purchasing British pounds in Germany), Amazon package delivered from China (Yuan) ........................................6.8249 for years, but it has been slowed deliveries to shoppers would be check with your local military banking Denmark (Krone) ................................6.2161 the sky is closer to becoming a facility. Commercial rates are interbank by regulatory hurdles. Back in happening “within months,” but Egypt (Pound) ....................................15.8336 rates provided for reference when buying reality. Euro ........................................ $1.1975/0.8350 December 2013, Amazon CEO more than 14 months have passed currency. All figures are foreign currencies The Federal Aviation Admin- Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7501 and founder Jeff Bezos said in a since then. Hungary (Forint) .................................296.74 to one dollar, except for the British pound, istration said Monday that it had which is represented in dollars-to-pound, TV interview that drones would Seattle-based Amazon is the Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.3532 granted Amazon approval to de- Japan (Yen) ...........................................105.92 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) liver packages by drones. be flying to customer’s homes third drone delivery service to Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3052 INTEREST RATES within five years. win flight approval, the FAA said. Norway (Krone) ...................................8.7171 Amazon said that the approval Philippines (Peso).................................48.53 Prime rate ................................................3.25 is an “important step,” but added Last year, Amazon unveiled Delivery company UPS and a Poland (Zloty) ..........................................3.66 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7505 Federal funds market rate ...................0.09 that it is still testing the drones. self-piloting drones that are fully company owned by search giant Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3590 3-month bill ............................................. 0.10 It did not say when it expected electric, can carry 5 pounds of Google won approval last year. South Korea (Won) ..........................1,185.91 30-year bond ...........................................1.51 WEATHER OUTLOOK WEDNESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEDNESDAY IN EUROPE THURSDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 82/74 Kabul 90/66 Seoul 77/67 Baghdad 114/79 Kandahar 91/56 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 75/69 86/77 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 65/49 57/52 80/67 Iwakuni 83/80 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 95/90 Brussels 61/52 Guam 101/80 67/50 Ramstein 83/80 85/82 Lajes, 70/49 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 101/81 102/83 74/71 64/49 65/52 Aviano/ Vicenza 67/56 Naples 79/65 Okinawa Morón 84/81 94/57 Sigonella Rota 84/71 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 99/84 80/62 85/75 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 11 Classified .................. 13 Comics ...................... 15 Crossword ................. 15 Faces ........................ 14 Opinion .................16-17 Sports .................. 18-24 Wednesday, September 2, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Allies: Russian jet violated NATO airspace BY JOHN VANDIVER for several years and indicates a new level crossed within 100 feet of the Air Force’s the sovereign airspace of an Allied nation. Stars and Stripes of Russian provocative behavior.” strategic bomber. We remain vigilant, ready and prepared On Tuesday, the Danish government The intrusion into NATO airspace Friday to secure NATO airspace 24/7,” Gen. Jeff STUTTGART, Germany — A Russian summoned Russia’s ambassador to lodge happened after the Russian jet intercepted Harrigian, commander of U.S. Air Forces fighter jet followed a U.S. B-52 bomber a formal complaint over the airspace the B-52 over the Baltic Sea as it was clos- in Europe and head of NATO’s Allied Air over Denmark, marking a rare and “sig- intrusion. ing in on Danish airspace near Bornholm Command, said in the statement. nificant violation” of NATO airspace, allies The intercept happened during a large island, NATO said. There has been an uptick in Russian in- said this week. NATO training drill in Europe, which in- “The Russian Su-27, flying from Kalin- tercepts of U.S. aircraft in recent months, The incident Friday prompted Denmark volved the U.S. flying six B-52 bombers ingrad, followed the B-52 well into Dan- including confrontations over the Mediter- to scramble quick reaction aircraft to coun- around European airspace escorted by ish airspace over the island, committing a ranean Sea and near the United States. ter the Russian Su-27, which took off from about 80 fighter jets from allied states. The significant violation of airspace of a NATO Last week, the Air Force scrambled a Russia’s military exclave in Kaliningrad, drill, called Allied Sky, prompted Moscow nation,” it said. flight of F-22 fighters to intercept six Rus- NATO said. to scramble jets of its own. The Russian jet turned back before Dan- sian Tu-142 maritime patrol aircraft fly- “The unauthorized intrusion of sov- In a separate incident Saturday, the U.S. ish planes could reach it, NATO said. Dan- ing off the coast of Alaska. The Russian ereign airspace is a significant violation said a B-52 bomber’s maneuvers above ish jets remained airborne to guard the aircraft loitered in the area for about five of international law,” NATO’s Allied Air the Black Sea were restricted by two Rus- airspace, the statement said. hours and came within 50 nautical miles Command said in a statement Monday.