Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An shirya Rundunar Sojojin Sojoji ta 17 a karkashin tanadin Dokar Tsaro ta Kasa ta 1916 a Fort Bliss, Texas a ranar 30 ga Yuni 1916 kuma an kafa shi a ranar 1 ga Yuli 1916. Brigadier Janar John J. Pershing ya ɗauki ginshiƙansa zuwa Mexico kawai a ɗan gajeren lokaci kafin kuma buƙatar dakarun sojan doki ya zama dole. Jami'ai talatin da biyu da tsoffin sojoji ɗari bakwai da casa'in da ɗaya daga rukunin sojan doki na 1, na 3, na 6, na 8 da na 14 an canza su a matsayin kwayar sabuwar rundunar. Da yawa daga cikin wadannan an tuno da su daga Tafiya ta Hukuncin Mexico
Kuma tun da duk sun kasance gogaggen sojoji, ba a bata lokaci ba wajen gurfanar da kungiyar. Kwamandan kwamandan, Kanar Willard A. Holbrook, ya dauki umurnin a ranar 9 ga Yuli, 1916, a ranar da maza daga 8th suka shiga 17th Cavalry Regiment. Kanar Holbrook ya rike shugabancin har sai an daukaka shi zuwa babban janar.