You noticed that too?! The ultimate POS.
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It was not 7th ID but 7th Corps here in Europe
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Those photos are from this Flickr album. They’re captioned “Conn Barracks, Schweinfurt Germany Open House 1975” and appear to be available in slightly larger sizes now than when I came across them some years ago (when I was looking for photos of M114s in this camouflage scheme). There’s a number of photos there in which you can see the uniform better.
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Aah! Gotcha. 
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I was in 2-64, in Schweinfurt, in 1981. Loved that place.
If you look at the top photo, you will notice that the camo pattern is extended to the interior of the vehicle.
I can’t say much about the uniforms; in the 80s we looked back on the 70s as having pretty low standards, just not up to our high levels. But I think maybe everybody tends to feel that way?
You know, “Those guys before us had it so easy and we had it so rough! I remember having to walk two miles through the snow, uphill each way, to go to the motorpool and back! Life was tough when I was in!” 
Ken
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That looks fantastic.
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I think that was also in the days when the Army 4 stars in theater could make their own rules on uniforms etc. so tans with bloused boots etc. some sort of look good in public deal, before we went with that awful dark and light green combo.
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I think the Khakis looked better than what I used in the 90s.
Tell me if that didn;t look good back in the 60s and 70s? Don’t mind soup sandwich over here. 
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So, this is just an idea, my time in the army was much later but its looks like the M106 in the picture is being displayed for an event and the soldiers seem to be wearing a form of dress uniform and I know that the airborne units wear jump boots with their dress uniform. Now I could be wrong but that’s what I see in that pic.
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It is being displayed for an event — an open day, to be precise. See the link I posted earlier in this thread 
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We did lots of open house displays in Germany during the Cold War to message the Russians that we were ready and able. Also to show the Germans we were committed.
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My bad I just included that to try to justify the uniforms.
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The 70s was a crazy time to be in the military. A lot of us VN vets were trying to finish our time, while they were looking for ways to bust us out to keep us from getting our benefits. They were pushing the new volunteer Army and get rid of the dinosaurs. I was in a stray outfit in AL. and we had to do a review for some reason. I had a small metal pig stamped with H-D for Harley Davidson, and put it under my ribbons. Nobody even noticed it, fortunatly! Finished with my SP/5 intacted. Wayne
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Heh, I was in a Field Station in West Germany in the mid 80s doing anti Soviet SIGINT things, and they handed us all little American flag pins that we attached to our badges to get into the SCIF. I got a hold of an extra one and painted it into a Sov flag and attached it next to my US one; nobody ever noticed. Definitely a great time to be in the military; we had an important mission in a part of the world that loved us and very few people firing live ammo in our direction.
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It was 7th Army that used the MASSTER camo scheme, which at that time was V & VII Corps. Off the top my head it was 1st ID (forward) 3rd ID, 8th ID, 1st AD, 2nd AD (forward), 3rd AD, 2nd and 11th ACRs, plus all sorts of Army & Corps level units
7th ID was stateside.
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Even then Local command had a fair bit of leeway when it came to uniforms, especially on special events. In the late 1980s in 3rd ACR we rotated through funeral detail several times. Or uniform was Class B (that light dark green combo) with bloused boots, white web belt with brass buckle, white gloves, and yellow neck scarf.
Ken
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Normally bloused boots in a non-duty uniform (class A or B for example) are reserved ofr Airborne troops. It’s a tradition that goes back to WWII. And yes, a commander can authorize them for special events, although when this thread first started, an open house didn’t seem worthy. However, it was apparently ordered, and no, it doesn’t have to be a four star.
MP’s regularly do it, and the entire (leg infantry) Berlin Brigade used to do it.
First pic - low quarters:
Second pic - bloused jump boots. Depends on the HMFIC.
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That a scene a 3D print guru should make.
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