Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te 1st Squadron te tiima tuatahi i whakaritea i roto i te ope rererangi, i hangaia i te 5 o Poutu-te-rangi 1913, i Texas City, Texas, hei 1st Aero Squadron. I te Poutu-te-rangi 1916, ko te 1st Aero Squadron, me te Kapene Benjamin D. Foulois hei rangatira, i tautoko i a General "Black Jack" Pershing's
ngā haerenga whiu ki Mexico. I whakaekehia e Pancho Villa a Columbus, New Mexico, a ka whai a Pershing me te tumanako kia hopukina ia. I te 16 o Poutu-te-rangi 1916, ko Kapene T.F. Dodd, me te Kapene Foulois hei kaitirotiro, i rere i te kaupapa tirotiro rererangi tuatahi a Amerika i te pakanga. Ko te raina ngaru i waenganui o te tohu o te parirau e tohu ana i te Rio Grande me nga mahi a te 1st Aero Squadron i te tau 1916. I whakaritea te 5th Aero Squadron i te tau 1917 i Kelly Field, Texas, a i mahi hei waahanga whakangungu rere.