In mid-July came rumors, and then orders, that concerned a change of camp. The brigade was to move to an empty cantonment, a hundred miles farther south, there to be expanded into a division.

7 月中旬传出谣言，然后是有关阵改变的命令。该旅将转移到南边百英里处的空，那里编为。

Although the army did not have enough men to spare for a division, Wilson decided to send Pershing ahead with his staff and officers while the men were trained in cantonments stateside before being shipped out to France.

尽管陆军没有足够的人员来组建，但威尔逊还是决定派潘兴带着他的参谋和军官先行， 而这些人员美国境内的军接受训练， 然后被运往法国。