Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan kammala karatunsa a 1923, Ridgely ya zama na biyu a cikin Rundunar Sojan Ruwa. Ya shiga cikin mamayar Haiti
da kuma Nicaragua a lokacin Banana Wars. Har ila yau, ya yi amfani da lokaci a kasashen waje a cikin Bahar Rum kafin ya shiga cikin Rundunar Sojan Ruwa ta 4 a Shanghai, kasar Sin, a watan Yunin 1941. A watan Nuwamba na wannan shekarar, an sake tura rundunar zuwa Philippines.