Editing Fort Snelling (section)

===World War I===
[[File:41 Inf Regt DUI.png|thumb|41st Infantry Regiment insignia with Fort Snelling's round tower emblazoned center]]
Once the United States entered the war the fort became a recruit processing station. For WWI the [[41st Infantry Regiment (United States)|41st Infantry]] was constituted at the fort in May 1917 and inactivated in September 1921. The army established an [[officer training]] school which closed when the war ended.<ref name="MNHS"/> At that time the only building seeing use was the base hospital. It was expanded to 1200 beds and designated General Hospital 29. During the [[1918 influenza pandemic]] it saw extensive use.<ref name="MNHS"/> That hospital would be the forerunner of the VA Hospital at Fort Snelling now. Between wars, the 14th Field Artillery and the 7th Tank Battalion were assigned to Fort Snelling while the base was considered the "Country Club of the U. S. Army".<ref name="MNHS">[https://www.mnhs.org/fortsnelling/learn/military-history/fort-expands Fort Snelling, Minnesota Historical Society website, 2020]</ref>

In 1921 the 3rd Infantry was in Ohio and ordered to report to Fort Snelling with no designated transport. They marched the 940 miles only to have the 2nd and 3rd Battalions inactivated upon arriving at Fort Snelling. The following June the 1st Battalion was inactivated only for a short time. The regiment would remain at Fort Snelling until 1941. Also in 1921 the US Army created the [[88th Infantry Division (United States)|88th Division]]al area in Iowa, Minnesota and North Dakota. Fort Snelling became a [[Citizens Military Training Camp]] (CMTC) for the [[351st Infantry Regiment (United States)|351st Infantry Regiment]] of the 88th Division. The Officers of the unit worked with the CCC program at Fort Snelling. When Pearl Harbor happened the regiment's officers were immediately activated for active duty units so that when the 351st was called up it had very few officers to meet the call.