Army National Guard Pvt. Taylor S. Montgomery has graduated from the Fire Support Specialist Advanced Individual Training course at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla.  The field artillery specialists serve in intelligence activities including target processing in field artillery, cannon battalions, division artillery, artillery and maneuver brigade and headquarters and fire support elements.

The course is designed to train students to establish, maintain, and operate radio and wire communications and speech security equipment, including encoding and decoding messages.  They also must prepare and maintain daily staff journals, fire support situation maps, charts and other fire support and target processing procedures, records, and documents.  In addition, students assist in initiating requests for field artillery, mortar, naval gunfire, and aerial delivered munitions, and emplace, maintain, and assist in the operation of laser range finders, target designation, and night observation devices.

Montgomery is the son of Barry and Melissa Montgomery of Cherokee Hills Drive, Salem.

He is a 2009 graduate of Glenvar High School, Salem.

Submitted by Joint Hometown News Service