During a video tele-conference held at Camp Taji, Iraq, Warrant Officer 4 James Snyder, from Pontiac, Mich., the battalion master gunner, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Multi-National Division—Baghdad, watches proudly as his daughter crosses a stage to receive her high school diploma from Belton High School, Belton, Texas, June 5. "It was hard knowing all my family and friends were there and I wasn't, but at least I got to partake this way," said Snyder.