He enlisted right when General John J. Pershing was fighting in Mexico against Pancho Villa so when the USA became involved in WWI the following year, he did not go to France and did not see action for the rest of the war.
He enlisted right when General John J. Pershing was fighting in Mexico against Pancho Villa. The next year, in 1917, so when the USA became involved in WW I, he did not go to France and did not see action for the rest of the war.