Harvey Scott Montgomery,U.S. Air Force

Harvey Scott Montgomery was born 10 October 1949 at the Florence Nightingale Baylor Hospital. He lived in Garland where he was a member of the Miller Road Baptist church until 1961 when his family joined the First Baptist Church in Dallas. He graduated from South Garland High School in 1967 and attended El Centro College while working at Sanger Harris. In January 1969 Scott married the former Patricia Ann Jones of Murfreesboro, Arkansas. On 24 June 1969 joined the United States Air Force. His basic training was at Lackland AFB and he remained there through his technical training school as a Security Policeman. He and 3 other cops were selected for a four year assignment to the 7005th ABS, Stuttgart Air Field, Germany. The other 543 went to either Vietnam or Korea. He went to Stuttgart in November 1969 and our son, Jason, and I joined him the following January. A couple of key events during our stay were the 1972 Olympics and the Bauder Mienhof gang. Both had a direct reflect to the security of the airfield. After that initial four year assignment Scott decided to re-enlist after discussing the job market with his dad and how scarce jobs were at the time.


Our Daughter, Jennifer was born in Stuttgart and in January 1974 we left for Denver Colorado where we were assigned to 3415th Security Police Squadron. He was selected to attend an investigators course and received all subsequent assignments as a Security Police Investigator. Our son, Brennan, was born in Denver.


1977 we were transferred to the 7206th AB Group, Athens Greece where Scott was in charge of the Security Police Investigation unit. As the chief investigator there were several key events that occurred during our stay in Athens. He was selected to serve on a security detail for the ranking Air Force member in country due to a direct threat from Carlos, the bombing of the NCO Club and American service members personal vehicles which prompted him to work with the Greek authorities on the Military Town Patrol unit, plus he developed sources that evolved into a major Security Police, OSI, Greek Police drugs and black market investigations.

In January 1980 we were assigned to 12th Security Police Squadron, Randolph AFB Texas where he was in charge of the SP Investigations Unit as well as a Reserve Police Officer for the Universal City Police Department. While there Scott had a short tour assignment to Wadi, Kena, Egypt where he was Chief, Security Police. He returned to Randolph and in 1985 received an assignment to the 15th Security Police Squadron, Hickam AFB Hawaii. He was in charge of the investigations unit there too and solved many cases in addition to security protection for the deposed Marcos family. One proud moment at Hickam was when Scott and I were selected as the MWR (Morale Welfare & Recreation) Volunteer Family of the Year for running the Bicycle Moto Cross track for the base and local dependents. We also adopted two children, Blayr and Blaine while in Honolulu on Christmas 1988. The last three years of his Air Force career Scott was detached to the Hawaii Armed Services Police (HASP) at Fort DeRussy (located on Waikiki) as the Superintendent.

He retired from active duty on 30 June 1990 serving 21 years 7 days. Decorations, medals, badges, citations, and campaign ribbons awarded or authorized; AF Training Ribbon, AF Overseas Short Tour Ribbon, AF Overseas Long Tour Ribbon (2 oak leaf clusters), National Defense Service Medal, AF Longevity Service Award (4 oak leaf clusters) NCO Professional Military Education Ribbon (1 oak leaf cluster) Small Arms Expert Marksmanship Ribbon (1 one star), AF Achievement Medal (2 oak leaf clusters), AF Commendation Medal (1 oak leaf cluster), Meritorious Service Medal (1 oak leaf cluster), Army Basis NCO course with a #2 device, joint Meritorious Service Medal. He attended many military courses such as, Combat Arms, FBI Hostage Negotiations, Terrorist Evasive Driving for VIP protection, DEA basic Narcotics and dangerous drugs course, and the Texas Peace Officers Reserves Course, Air Base ground defense and Military Police Investigators school to name a few.

We stayed in Hawaii, for Jennifer's senior year at Radford High School and on 5 June 1991, we returned to Texas and now live in Rowlett. He started to work shortly after our return providing estate security for a local high profile person in the DFW area. He moved into corporate security and since September 11, has taken a turn testing all the knowledge he learned in the military and those events that occurred throughout his career. All five children have moved from home and we have two grand children, Cole and Nicholas.