Books by David D. Bruhn

Commander David D. Bruhn, U.S. Navy (Retired) served twenty-two years on active duty and two in the Naval Reserve, as both an enlisted man and as an officer . After graduation from the Naval Postgraduate School, Cdr. Bruhn was assigned to Secretary of the Navy and CNO staffs as a budget analyst and resources planner. He commanded the mine countermeasures ships USS Gladiator (MCM 11) and USS Dextrous (MCM 13) in the Persian Gulf and was Executive Assistant at the Ballistic Missile Defence Organization in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Wooden Ships and Iron Men: The U.S. Navy's Ocean Minesweepers, 1953-1994.