The regiment typically conducted inactive training period meetings at the University of Minnesota's ROTC armory or the Federal Building in Minneapolis.

[2] On 1 July 1940, the regiment was reactivated, less Reserve personnel, and assigned to the 7th Infantry Division at Camp Ord, California,[3] under the command of Major General Joseph W.

[4] The 7th Infantry Division was assigned to III Corps of the Fourth United States Army,[4] and that year it was sent to Oregon for tactical maneuvers.

Division units also practiced boat loading at the Monterey Wharf and amphibious assault techniques at the Salinas River in California.

[4] With the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, the division was sent to Camp San Luis Obispo to continue its training.