Littlefield completed basic training and duty as first sergeant at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas. He was then transferred to officers school at Camp Pike in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was a First Lieutenant and a bayonet instructor. Here he continued his athletic endeavors by competing on the officer’s football team and winning the Midwest Championship. He was honorably discharged in the fall of 1920.
Learn more about Camp Pike known today as Camp Joseph T. Robinson.