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，然后是有关阵营改变的命令。该旅将转移到南边一百英里处的一个空营地，在那里扩编为一个师。

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一个师，但威尔逊还是决定派潘兴带着他的参谋和军官先行， 而这些人员在美国境内的军营接受训练， 然后被运往法国。