[1][2] The is currently stationed in the Eastern Visayas region,[3] with its headquarters in Catubig, Northern Samar.
[4] 19IB had been assigned to the 10th Infantry Division in Arakan, North Cotabato for a four year stint until 2020, and had been based in Kananga, Leyte under the 8th Infantry Division prior to its North Cotabato assignment.
[5] Amnesty International noted an incident on 31 May 1993 in which Palapag, Northern Samar farmers Robin and Diorito Trosing were taken for questioning by the 19IB and a local Citizen Armed Force Geographical Group (CAFGU) unit.
[6] The 19th Infantry Battalion (19IB), which was under the command of 1Lt Ronald Odchimar at the time,[1] became involved in a widely publicized incident on November 15, 2010, in which preeminent[7][8] Filipino botanist Leonardo Co, a forest guard named Sofronio Cortez and a local farmer named Julius Borromeo, who were gathering endangered tree species seedlings in Kananga, Leyte, were killed in what the Army claimed to be "a crossfire with the New People’s Army".
[8][9][10] In May 2007, the 19IB was the unit which oversaw the high profile arrest of labor leader Vincent Borja, who was found innocent and released three years later in 2010.