Semi-Multi threaded JDBC connection

I have the following Callable instance where the SQLException is thrown here:

public long[] call() throws Exception {
    long[] stats = new long[6];
    try {
        executer.acquire();
        PreparedStatement statement =
            connection
                .prepareStatement("SELECT `War`.`EndTime` FROM `WarSim`.`War` WHERE `War`.`WarName` = ?");
        statement.setString(1, warName);
        ResultSet res = statement.executeQuery(); //<--------------SQLEXCEPTION HERE
        if (res.first()) {
        Timestamp ts = res.getTimestamp("EndTime");
        if (ts != null)
            stats[0] = 1;
        statement =
            connection
                .prepareStatement("SELECT COUNT(`ID`) FROM `Missile` WHERE `WarName` = ?");
        statement.setString(1, warName);
        res = statement.executeQuery();
        stats[1] = res.getInt(1);
        statement =
            connection
                .prepareStatement("SELECT COUNT(`ID`) FROM `Missile` WHERE `WarName` =  ?  AND `Intercepted` = '1'");
        statement.setString(1, warName);
        res = statement.executeQuery();
        stats[2] = res.getInt(1);
        stats[3] = stats[1] - stats[2];
        statement =
            connection
                .prepareStatement("SELECT COUNT(`ID`) FROM `EnemyLauncher` WHERE `WarName` = ? AND `Intercepted` = '1'");
        statement.setString(1, warName);
        res = statement.executeQuery();
        stats[4] = res.getInt(1);
        statement =
            connection
                .prepareStatement("SELECT SUM(`Damage`) FROM `Missile` WHERE `WarName` =  ? AND `Intercepted` = '0'");
        statement.setString(1, warName);
        res = statement.executeQuery();
        stats[5] = res.getInt(1);
        }
    } catch (SQLException e) {
        System.out.println(warName + " is problematic");
        while (e != null) {
        System.out.println("\tmsg: " + e.getMessage()+
                       "\n\tstate: " + e.getSQLState());
        e = e.getNextException();
        }
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        executer.release();
    }
    return stats;
    }

executer is a single-permit, fair semaphore I use.

When I debug the code, everything works perfectly (no exceptions), yet when I run the program "normally" I get the "start of result set" SQLException thrown along with SQLState S1000.

How come I get exceptions even though I used a semaphore to acquire the mutex to query?

Help please :)

EDIT: here's the stack trace.

java.sql.SQLException: Before start of result set

    at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:1075)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:989)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:984)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:929)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSetImpl.checkRowPos(ResultSetImpl.java:841)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSetImpl.getInt(ResultSetImpl.java:2672)
    at db.jdbc.GetWarStatsTask.call(GetWarStatsTask.java:37)
    at db.jdbc.GetWarStatsTask.call(GetWarStatsTask.java:1)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

The class handling the Connection to the database:

public class JDBCConnection implements DBConnection {

    private Connection connection;
    private String dbUrl;
    private Semaphore executer;
    private ExecutorService es;
    private static JDBCConnection instance;

    public static JDBCConnection getInstance() {
    if (instance == null) {
        instance = new JDBCConnection();
    }
    return instance;
    }

    private JDBCConnection() {
    dbUrl = "jdbc:mysql://---------/WarSim";
    try {
        Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
        connection =
            DriverManager.getConnection(dbUrl, "------", "-------");
    } catch (InstantiationException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (SQLException e) {
        while (e != null) {
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        e = e.getNextException();
        }
    }
    es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool();
    executer = new Semaphore(1, true);
    }

    public Future<long[]> getWarStats(String warName) {
    return es.submit(new GetWarStatsTask(executer, connection, warName));
    }

    public void closeDB() {
    try {
     if (connection != null) {
        connection.close();
     }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println("Could not close the current connection.");
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Basically you are positioning the cursor before the first row and then requesting data. You need to move the cursor to the first row.

So first call result.next();