Ka kammala wannan magana: A watan Afrilu na shekara ta 1918, Wright ya shiga rundunar sojan Amurka kuma an ba shi mukamin soja a sansanin Shelby. Ya yi aiki a matsayin memba na 149th Machine Gun Battalion a cikin Rukunin Sojoji na 38. Daga baya ya yi aiki a matsayin kwamandan na 105th Engineer Combat Battalion. A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na I ya shiga cikin yaƙe-yaƙe na
Belleau Wood da Château-Thierry kafin a sallame shi cikin girmamawa a ranar 31 ga Agusta, 1919. Bayan barin sojojin sai ya shirya wani sashi na Mississippi National Guard a Rolling Fork kuma an zaba shi ya zama kyaftin dinsa na farko inda zai jagoranci rukunin ta hanyar Babban Ambaliyar Mississippi na 1927.