In addition, it provided weather service in the Niinisalo region, and trained most of the Finnish Defence Forces' dogs.

The total strength of the brigade was some 800 conscripts and 400 regular civilian and military personnel.

The Satakunta Artillery Regiment fielded two cannon batteries, with equipment ranging from 122 mm light howitzers to 155 mm cannons and a support battery consisting entirely out of signals personnel and spotters.

The conscripts participated in several live-fire exercises in the nearby firing range at Pohjankangas, before the two- or three-week-long national live-fire artillery exercise held once a year in Rovajärvi firing range in Lapland.

In 2013, as a preliminary of the merger with the Pori Brigade, the 3rd Infantry Company was established as a part of the Reconnaissance Battalion.