LIVE: President Trump Makes an Announcement - 9/2/25

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[ckilmer]

The federal government still owns the presidio but rents it out.

[vivenne]

Yes, it does. National Park Service oversees it.

[hanamizu]

My hometown, Long Beach, Cal, was a Navy town back when I was.a nipper. Remember asking my dad what the sailors with SP armbands were all about. Huge numbers of ships in the mothball fleet and when the ‘fleet was in’, warships wherever you looked. All gone now.

[Magnum44]

I heard it was a health announcement.

and if you play Revolution #9 backwards, it says "Paul is a dead man, Paul is a dead man, Paul is a dead man...."

[Getready]

Link is image only. Not working?

[Rockingham]

Huntsville makes a lot of sense as the headquarters for Space Command. When the US Navy's Vanguard rocket program faltered in the late 50s due to inadequate funding, poor engineering, and limited vision, the Army's boosters at the Redstone army base at Huntsville became the foundation of NASA and the entire US space program.

The Army's key advantage was Werner von Braun and a clutch of other former Nazi engineers who spent most of their lives dreaming of manned space flight and going to the Moon and Mars. At Redstone in Huntsville, the Germans and their American colleagues mastered the hardest part of space flight, designing, building, and testing powerful, reliable, rocket engines. The core infrastructure for doing so was built at and remains at Huntsville.

Putting the HQs for Space Command at Huntsville means that there will be minimal separation between the leadership and the shop floor. Trump ran his businesses like that, obsessively watching over how things ran. The decision looks political but actually makes good sense for the benefit of the US space program.

[Vendome]

He sure looks much less dead than I expected .

[dware]

The announcement. I couldn’t care less about what Trump does with Space Force. I’m here for the arrests. If it ain’t an announcement of an arrest of a previously high profile political figure mired in the corruption and deep state, it ain’t important. Until those announcements begin, I’d rather focus on what I got going on.

[Jane Long]

Sounds like a good plan, for you.

You won’t have to bother with LIVE Pres Trump threads. 😉

[roadcat]

Agree. SF was a military town. That was part of its identity for over a 100 years.

I have memories as a teen of visiting Fort Point under the GG Bridge. Soldiers sometimes did target practice there, and I found spent shell casings there. In the late 1970s Fort Mason was turned over to the City, and my Apple Corps Club moved from Geary Blvd to Fort Mason facilities now run by SF City. Little by little, military sites were taken over by civilian use.

Fort Point is an interesting place to visit, has many museum displays. Coastal area at and under GG Bridge still has cannon mounts and other coastal defenses on display. Originally built by the Spanish to keep Russians away, then upgraded by USA during Civil War times to keep Confederate ships away. Interesting history point is when Russian ships sailed into the Bay, the Spanish failed to utilize their cannons in time and ended up welcoming the Russian ships in for trade. Lots of history for young people to explore.