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Cpl. Doan La, a supply clerk and 20-year-old Van Nuys, Calif. native, recites the Noncommissioned Officer?s Creed alongside 19 of his fellow corporals as they prepare to graduate from a corporals course held at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq February 18, 2006. Unlike most corporals courses which are held in a garrison environment where supplies and course materials are readily available, this one was held as the Marines were deployed to a combat zone and mirrored some of the challenges inherent to being far from the homefront. Throughout the course, the corporals learned a variety of subjects they could use to be better leaders such as legal processes, administrative procedures, leadership studies and uniform regulations.