Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1902, Scriven, yana aiki a matsayin Babban Jami'in Sigina na Sojoji, ya yi kwangilar Kamfanin Waya na Waya na Marconi don watan Satumba Long Island sojojin sojojin ruwa, kafa tashoshin telegraphy mara waya a Block Island, Gardiner's Island, da kuma hedkwatar Sojoji a Fort Trumbull, Connecticut. Scriven shi ne Babban Jami'in Sadarwa na Ma'aikatar Gabas daga 1904 zuwa 1909; kuma a matsayin Babban Jami'in Sadarwa na Sashen Philippines
daga 1909 zuwa 1911. A watan Janairun 1913, an ba da Colonel Scriven zuwa Brigadier General kuma an nada shi a matsayin shugaban jami'in sakonni na bakwai na Sojojin Amurka da Shugaba William Howard Taft. A lokacin da aka nada, an lura cewa Scriven "ya yi aiki mai ban mamaki, an haɗa shi a lokuta daban-daban zuwa rassa uku na aikin soja, kuma ya ga sabis a duk sassan duniya kuma ya shiga gaban kowane yakin da aka yi tun lokacin da ya kammala karatunsa daga Kwalejin Soja... "