LAWTON, Okla. — Army Pvt. Christopher A. Navia has graduated from the fire support specialist advanced individual training course at Fort Sill. 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. 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.

Navia is the son of Rodrigo and Sandra Navia of Tuscarora Court, West Melbourne, Fla. He is a 2008 graduate of Fryeburg Academy, Maine.