While in the embattled, bitter years of the Clone Wars, many clone commanders underwent specialized ARC special-operator training to augment their leadership, Commander Coral was a highly unusual case. During initial imprinting and exercises on Kamino, Coral was recognized as an exceptional commando with both substantial tremendous personal initiative and skill as well as an endogenous leadership that rallied many other clones during combined-formations exercises. Thus, Coral was experimentally promoted to the rank of clone trooper commander and installed as the commander of the novel and newly-activated 24th Airborne Brigade ("Shock Rifles"), the first shock corps designated by the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), where it was intended that both his individual and leadership core skills