Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Janar Patton ya jagoranci rukunin a lokacin Tennessee Maneuvers a watan Yunin 1941, kuma an yaba masa saboda jagorancinsa, aiwatar da sa'o'i 48 na manufofin da aka tsara a cikin tara kawai. A lokacin watan Satumba na Louisiana, sashinsa ya kasance wani ɓangare na Red Army da aka rasa a Phase I, amma a Phase II an sanya shi zuwa Blue Army. Rukunin nasa ya aiwatar da ƙarshen gudu a kusa da Red Army kuma "ya kama" Shreveport, Louisiana. A lokacin Oktoba-Nuwamba Carolina Maneuvers, sashin Patton ya kama Hugh Drum, kwamandan sojojin adawa. A ranar 15 ga Janairu, 1942 an ba shi umurnin I Armored Corps, kuma a watan da ya gabata ya kafa Cibiyar Horar da Hamada a yankin Coachella Valley na Riverside County a California, don gudanar da atisayen horo. Ya fara waɗannan darussan a ƙarshen 1941 kuma ya ci gaba da su har zuwa lokacin rani na 1942. Patton ya zaɓi wani yanki na hamada da ke kudu maso gabashin Palm Springs. Tun daga farkon kwanakinsa a matsayin kwamandan, Patton ya jaddada bukatar dakarun soji su ci gaba da hulda da dakarun adawa. An nuna fifikon sa na motsa jiki na motsa jiki ta hanyar amsar da Patton ya ba wa 'yan jarida na yaki a wani taron manema labarai na 1944. Da yake amsa tambayar ko Sojoji na Uku
Ya kamata a rage saurin kai hari a fadin Faransa don rage yawan asarar Amurka, Patton ya amsa, "Duk lokacin da kuka jinkirta wani abu, kuna zubar da rayukan mutane". A wannan lokacin ne wani dan jarida, bayan ya ji wani jawabi inda Patton ya ce yana da "jini da kwakwalwa" don cin nasara a yaƙi, ya fara kiransa "jini da guts". Wannan laƙabin zai kasance da shi har ƙarshen rayuwarsa. Sojojin da ke ƙarƙashin ikonsa an san su a wasu lokatai suna yin ba'a, "jininmu, gutsunsa". Duk da haka, an san shi da sha'awar maza da ke ƙarƙashin ikonsa.