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David Bruhn taught science and coached cross country and track & field (middle-distance and distance runners) at Wheatland High School from 2001-03; following the completion of twenty-two years of naval service. A former surface warfare officer, he served in a variety of ships, and commanded two mine countermeasures ships, USS Gladiator (MCM 11) and USS Dextrous (MCM 13). Ashore, he was assigned, during six years in the Pentagon, to the staffs of the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of Defense. He resides with his wife Nancy, and sons, David and Michael, in Chico, California, where he was born and raised. A former runner in high school and during 1 ½ years of junior college, he was in the 1970s a member of four California N.S.C.I.F. Championship cross country teams, and in track & field he twice won individual N.S.C.I.F. titles.
Bruhn is a graduate of California State University, Chico; the Naval Postgraduate School; and the Naval War College, and holds the below degrees:
A published book author, Ready to Answer All Bells, Naval Institute Press, 1997, his hobbies include writing, gardening, and the restoration of his 1967 Jaguar 420 sedan. Due mostly because of his efforts, Coach Bruhn was the inspiration behind this Track & Field website. Read the March 1974 newspaper article on David Bruhn (417K).
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