 After days and years of training under American instructors, the LRC was officially activated on February 1, 2004 and was tasked to be deployed into Mindanao in order to combat Abu Sayyaf Group terrorists responsible for abducting several foreign hostages, with the unit conducting an operation to rescue Gracia Burnham from Abu Sayyaf terrorists.Further exercises had been conducted during the 2006 Balikatan exercises.The LRB had been involved in a rescue operation conducted on a kidnapped Italian priest by armed men in 2007.