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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Bowling Green Police Department Sgt. Geoffrey Gleitz sees his service with the police department as an extension of the public service he began as a teen in the military.

Gleitz, a 1996 graduate of Bowling Green High School, attended college for a short time before deciding he needed "direction and some discipline" in his life and decided to join the U.S. Army in 1998.

"It was good for me," he said.

Gleitz' first assignment after training landed him in Baumholder, Germany.

While in Europe in 1999, he deployed to Tirana, Albania, where his infantry group conducted rout...