Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Swift akaberekerwa muFort Laramie, Wyoming, mwanakomana waMajor General Eben Swift naSusan Palmer. Akapedza kudzidza paWest Point muna 1904 uye akagadzwa muuto rehondo. Akashanda somubatsiri womukuru mukuru John J. Pershing muPhilippines
uye ipapo akashanda muMexico. Paaiva mutevedzeri wemutungamiriri weC Troop, 13th Cavalry, akaperekedza First Lieutenant George S. Patton pakuvhima kwaJulio Cardenas, mutungamiri wevarindi vepachivande vaPancho Villa. Mukati meHondo Yenyika I akashanda seMutevedzeri Mukuru weVashandi ve86th Division.