Ka kammala wannan magana: Bayan ya sauke karatu a shekara ta 1923, aka ba Ridgely mukamin laftana na biyu a rundunar sojan ruwa. Ya shiga cikin
mamayewar Haiti da Nicaragua a lokacin Yaƙin Banana. 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.