Closing U.S. sites in Germany

The Army has announced that by next summer, ten relatively small sites e.g. (housing areas, depots, missile locations) will close in Germany. One of those, Dexheim Missile Facility and housing area, is close to my heart. Back in the early 1980's I was the Command Engineer for the 32nd Army Air Defense Command, and Dexheim was one of several where we worked to plan for and then station the new (then) Patriot Missile System. After I left, the plan we'd worked out came to fruition and for years afterwards, the 32nd remained as a primary defense capability for NATO forces in West Germany. I've always said that what we (U.S.) did in West Germany especially during the 1980's, was directly responsible for the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union. We were definitely ready for any contingency. Fortunately, we never had to execute.