After World War I came to an end, on November 11, 1918, just five days before his 26th birthday, he returned with his regiment back to the United States in June 1919 and held numerous assignments to infantry commands, held staff positions and attended schools. Returning to Europe for a second time, he was a member of the occupation army stationed in Koblenz, Germany from 1920 to 1922. Returning again to the United States, he attended and graduated from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1923. While he was there he met his wife, Margaret Martin Brown, and married her in the Fort Leavenworth Chapel on June 20, 1923. Soon afterwards he was assigned to the Historical Section of the U.S. Army War College. He later attended and graduated from the U.S. Army War College in 1928 and took part in a short course at the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare School.