NFL MILITARY FACES Chiefs turn to Army captain charged Billy Porter helps ground game with murder in death examine origins of in win over Bills of Fort Bliss officer gay rights movement Back page Page 3 Page 16 Russia and US appear ready for deal to extend nuclear pact » Page 3 stripes.com Volume 79, No. 133 ©SS 2020 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas General ELECTION 2020 removed amid racial slur probe BY JOHN VANDIVER Stars and Stripes STUTTGART, Germany — Maj. Gen. Stephen Neary has been relieved of command of U.S. Marines in Europe and Africa while the service investigates allegations he used a racial slur that denigrates Black people, the Corps said Tuesday. Marine Commandant Gen. David H. Berger relieved Neary on Monday “due to a loss of trust and confi- dence in his ability to serve in com- mand,” the Corps said in a statement. The Ma- rine Corps previously said that the investigation Neary was connect- AP photos ed to the use of a racial slur but Cathy Badalamenti poses for a portrait at in her Lombard, Ill., home on Saturday. In 2016, the Independent eschewed both Donald declined to go into detail. Trump and Hillary Clinton and voted for a third-party candidate, despite having voted twice for former President Barack Obama. Stars and Stripes reported earlier this month that the two- star general’s actions were being probed for using the word during THE a training event at his Stuttgart- area headquarters. The incident occurred in Au- gust on the parade field outside Marine Corps Forces Europe and Undecided Africa headquarters in Boeblin- gen, Germany. A lance corporal Policy vs. personality debate leaves some voters torn who was present told Stars and Stripes that Neary used the N- word while Marines were doing BY JILL COLVIN evening after pouring a glass of sauvi- physical training outdoors with AND AAMER MADHANI gnon blanc. “It would be so easy for him loud music playing. Some of the Associated Press to win my vote if he could just be a decent rap music incorporated the word, human being,” she had said earlier dur- which prompted Neary to ask the WASHINGTON — Amanda Jaronows- ing a focus group session. junior Marines how they would ki is torn. The lifelong Republican from Jaronowski is part of a small but poten- feel if he said it, the lance corpo- suburban Cleveland supports President tially significant group of voters who say ral said. Donald Trump’s policies and fears her they remain truly undecided less than The Marine, who spoke on con- business could be gutted if Democrat Joe three weeks before the Nov. 3 election. ‘ It would be so easy for him dition of anonymity for fear of Biden is elected. They have been derided as uninformed retribution, said Black, white and But she abhors Trump personally, or lying by those who cannot fathom still to win my vote if he could just Latino Marines were jolted when leaving her on the fence about who will being undecided, but conversations with be a decent human being. the general said the word. Even get her vote. a sampling of these voters reveal a com- ’ if Neary was attempting to be It’s a “moral dilemma,” Jaronowski plicated tug of war. Amanda Jaronowski said as she paced her home one recent SEE UNDECIDED ON PAGE 7 undecided voter on President Donald Trump SEE PROBE ON PAGE 5 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, October 21, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Nokia to build moon’s first 4G cellular network Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9075 Euro costs (Oct. 21) ..............................$1.15 Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 31.31 Dollar buys (Oct. 21) .........................€0.8251 Turkey (Lira) .........................................7.8760 Associated Press technology for the Artemis moon- lunar surface innovation. British pound (Oct. 21) ........................ $1.26 (Military exchange rates are those Japanese yen (Oct. 21) ......................103.00 available to customers at military banking landing program. 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T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 15 Classified .................. 13 Comics ...................... 17 Crossword ................. 17 Faces ........................ 16 Opinion ..................... 18 Sports .................. 19-24 Wednesday, October 21, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Army captain charged in death of Fort Bliss officer BY ROSE L. THAYER where they saw Perry. Nelson-Royster told police she Stars and Stripes had been in an on-and-off relationship with Perry for the past five years, the El Paso Times reported. AUSTIN, Texas — An Army captain has been Later, the two followed Perry to his apartment. arrested and charged with murder in the death of When Nelson-Royster and Sennessie arrived at another captain at Fort Bliss with whom she had a the apartment complex, they saw a group of men romantic relationship, police beating up Perry, the newspaper reported. Nelson- said. Royster said she attempted to break up the fight and Capt. Clevy Muchette Nel- Perry escaped to his vehicle. Perry drove away in son-Royster, 27, is the second his Audi and Nelson-Royster and Sennessie chased person charged with murder in Perry in the Jeep, which belonged to her but was the death of Capt. Malcom X. driven by Sennessie. Perry, 27, according to the El The Jeep began ramming the Audi until it rolled Paso Police Department. over, crashed and caught fire on John Hayes Street Perry died at about 5:50 and Zaragoza Road, the newspaper reported. Sen- a.m. Oct. 11 after the Audi A4 nessie then exited the Jeep and fled the scene, but sedan that he was driving was police found Nelson-Royster and the Jeep near the rammed by a Jeep Wrangler Nelson-Royster scene of the crash. She told police that her boyfriend until it flipped and burst into was in the burned vehicle, the paper reported. STAFF SGT. J.T. ARMSTRONG, U.S. AIR FORCE/AP flames on a road in east El The investigation into the incident continues. Paso. Minutes before the crash, The newspaper report did not mention whether This image taken Oct. 2, 2019, shows an unarmed Minuteman 3 Perry called 911 and told the Nelson-Royster was injured in the crash or what intercontinental ballistic missile test launch at Vandenberg Air Force dispatcher, “I am going to die,” could have motivated any of the violence that night. Base, Calif. The Pentagon has raised to $95.8 billion the estimated according to a report from the Police arrested Sennessie on Wednesday and Nel- cost of a new fleet of l missiles to replace the Minuteman 3.