 He completed the Infantry Officer Course at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1926, and remained there as an instructor on the staff of the U.S. Army Infantry School.From 1929 to 1930, he was an instructor at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, and he completed the Infantry Advanced Course at Fort Benning in 1930.A specialist with the placement and marksmanship of machine guns, he operated schools for machine gun operators at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and Fort Warren in the early 1930s.