Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te pakarutanga o te Pakanga Tuatahi o te Ao i te marama o Akuhata 1914, i whakawhiwhia a Krueger ki te tuunga hei kaitirotiro me te ope taua Tiamana engari i akina ia ki te whakakore i a ia na nga whakaritenga a te whanau. Engari, i tukuna ia ki te 10th Infantry o te Pennsylvania Army National Guard. I whakauruhia te reimana i te 23 o Pipiri 1916 ka mahi i te taha o te rohe o Mexico mo nga marama e rima hei waahanga o te
Ko te haerenga whiu a Mexico i raro i a Major General John J. Pershing, ahakoa kaore he roopu Tiaki Motu i whawhai ki nga hoia Mexico. I whakauruhia te waeine i te Oketopa 1916.