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After eight years as a military policeman, including a deployment to the Balkans, and a second career as a defense contractor in Colorado, Tartt moved back home in 2012 to help his ailing mother.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

The man, who went by the call sign of "Granit," is Valery Buslov, a Russian military policeman with the Baltic Fleet.

From Reuters • May 23, 2023

He was drafted into the Army in 1961 and spent two years as a military policeman in Germany and France.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2023

So could ex-US Army military policeman Jack Reacher have existed without Forsyth?

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2021

I gravitated toward gentle Cleve Dobbins, a forty-something former military policeman, who was as disinclined toward suffering as I was.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover