The 2nd Squadron participated in a review on 7 June 1930 for Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.

The regiment provided escort to Prince and Princess Takamatsu of Japan on 11 April 1931 during their visit to New York City.

The regiment conducted summer training at [[[Fort Ethan Allen]], Vermont, from 1921–25 (less 1923), Camp Dix, New Jersey, in 1923, and Pine Camp, New York, from 1926–39, and conducted additional week-long winter training directed by the War Department at Plattsburg Barracks, New York, in December 1939.

It was inducted into active federal service at home stations on 27 January 1941 and transferred to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, arriving there on 4 February 1941.

[2] In 1943, the regiment was reorganized into the: With this organization, the group saw combat in northwest Europe during World War II with the XV and the XXI Corps of the U.S.

[7] Among other exploits, troops of the 101st Cavalry captured German field marshal Albert Kesselring as well as the Japanese ambassador to Germany in May 1945.