No, Vinny, Dietrich did not shut down the Presidio, and it was a fucking TRAINING BASE HQ for US ARMY RESERVE UNITS - NOT THE FUCKING PENTAGON OF THE WEST COAST! It was scheduled for closure by an act of Congress in 1988!
"The Sixth Division of the US Army had its headquarters at the Presidio of San Francisco. The 6th Army's primary goal and mission objective was to provide training to Reserve Units serving the 12 Western States."
https://rkcolejr.blogspot.com/2022/06/douglas-dietrich-did-not-shut-down-us.htmlBase Closure:As the Cold War drew to an end, the Department of Defense prepared to make adjustments to its budget and prepared for a reduction in force (RIF) including the deployment of US Forces abroad and its forces on bases within the continental United States (CONUS).
A similar reduction in force had previously been conducted by the US Army in 1975 following the war in Vietnam.
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n May 1988, four months after Dietrich was given an Entry Level Separation from the USMC, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) included the Presidio among its list of nearly 150 DOD facilities across the country and overseas to be closed. The Presidio then began the process of "drawdown" and finally sent its remaining training units in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1990 and 1991.
In October 1994 the Sixth Army was officially inactivated and the Presidio was closed as an active U.S. Army installation per BRAC. The Presidio was then transferred to the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service.
