The commandos are trained in guerrilla warfare, counter-guerrilla operations, military behaviour, map reading, psychological preparation, military intelligence and counter-intelligence.
Its other activities involves building efforts towards counter-intelligence, counter-proliferation, and counter-insurgency as well as assisting the government at all levels of commands in managing intelligence.
However, amid the counter-intelligence movement of eliminating the names of military facilities from maps, the station was soon renamed to its present name in 1940.