January, February, and March 1972 were spent undergoing repairs at Portland. On 25 March, "Wallace L. Lind" set to sea and conducted gunnery exercises off the coast of Washington, then sailed to San Francisco, where she rearmed before returning to Portland. On 6 April, the destroyer got underway for Seattle, Washington, the first of six such trips that she would make in the next eight months. While in Washington, she attended the Daffodil Festival at Tacoma. "Lind" conducted a reservist training cruise to Pearl Harbor, arriving on 24 June. In August, the destroyer sailed north to Juneau, Alaska, for the Juneau Salmon Derby. She followed this trip with a transit of the Columbia River to the Astoria Regatta festival. During September, "Lind"’s only sea time was a three-day junket to Esquimalt, British Columbia, with her select reserve crew embarked for training purposes. On 24 October, she got underway for San Diego and a three-week availability. On 18 November, "Wallace L. Lind" set sail for her home port of Portland, where she remained for the rest of the year.