LOL, actually it was started on a massive scale in 1991 by President Bush. Over a period of years we basically reduced our presence in Germany by 2/3. For guys like me who wanted to stay in Germany, it was quite difficult to make that happen sometimes. You'd wind up taking a lot of odd assignments (like guarding the port in Antwerp, Belgium) in order to stay past your PCS or in exchange for orders to the right place in Germany. (LOL, it wouldn't do to go to all that trouble to stay and then wind up non-deployable in Hohenfels. Some stations were definitely better than others.)
This is the logical outcome of the end of the Cold War and the Draw Down.