The Allied occupation of the first zone of the Rhineland in Germany ended.
It was a Saturday.
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The Army was just introducing its new service uniform.
1926 was the year the U.S. Army adopted an open collared "service uniform", with a different pattern for enlisted men as opposed to officers. Here Maj. John B. Coulter is shown wearing the newly introduced uniform. While the cut is a little different, and breeches are not common now, and were then, this is the same basic color scheme of uniform, "pinks and greens" reintroduced for all ranks in 2018, after having been originally phased out in 1954. While it was a good looking uniform, it was actually not as practical as its predecessor, given that it was supposed to be a combat uniform. This would cause the Army to rapidly develop combat specific clothing immediately before World War Two.
Officers had to buy their uniforms (they still do) and Coulter must have just purchased his. Coulter was a cavalryman (hence the breeches) who had entered the Army in 1912 and who would serve until 1952, retiring as a Lt. General.
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