Sgt. Patrick Gildea and Officer Tom Capps serve the Garden Grove Police Department as traffic and SWAT officers, and they also share a military background. “There’s a lot of mindset that you get from the military that you don’t get working a civilian job,” Gildea said. Gildea jokes that his weapon while in the U.S. Navy was a pen. As an intelligence officer aboard the USS Essex, an amphibious assault ship designed to launch Marine invasions of foreign coastlines, Gildea helped assemble reports and briefings of classified information to advise the command staff. Unlike some sailors, Gildea constantly knew his ship’s…