SEVERANCE, Colo. (KDVR) — These days, Ken Chavez watches over the town of Severance from a police cruiser, serving as chief of a growing Northern Colorado community.
But some of the lessons he carries into that role were learned thousands of miles away on the battlefields of Afghanistan.
Chavez, then a Denver police lieutenant and member of the Colorado Army National Guard’s 5th Battalion, 19th Special Forces, deployed to Afghanistan in the spring of 2002, just months after the September 11 attacks…