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group leveraged our work by joint programs with the National Institute of

Standards and Technology, the Department of Homeland Security, the
Department of Energy Laboratories, and several universities, including the
U.S. Naval Academy. Midshipmen at the top of their class and Trident

Scholars performed valuable work at no added cost to the Navy. Naval officers
in graduate studies performed theses that advanced the Navy’s radiation
dosimetry program.

I am David Ritterpusch, a Veteran, a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army, and I
served in the Department of Defense and the Department of Labor. In the
Pentagon, I worked with Assistant Secretary of the Army Honorable Delbert

Spurlock. In 1991, when the President of the United States appointed Mr.
Spurlock Deputy Secretary of Labor, I was appointed his Principal Deputy. I
was later appointed Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans.

At the Department of Labor, I was involved in domestic and international labor
issues. I helped craft the briefing given to President Bush immediately after
the riots in Los Angeles. I provided extensive on-the-ground investigations of

German private and public apprenticeship programs and their characteristics
that might be applicable to our U.S. workforce training programs. Much of my
work as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans was aimed at developing
strategies and solutions for workforce deliverables for our Veterans. Toward

that goal, I met with leaders of business and government, and with governors,
ambassadors, and academicians.

My life’s work has been service to my Country. While in the military, I
produced a 120–page highly classified weekly intelligence summary of every
armed conflict in the world, which looked closely at the socio-economic and

political dimensions of many of those conflicts. I served multiple tours in the
Cold War Pentagon. Between tours on active duty with the Army, I was the
Scouting Director of the World Champion Baltimore Orioles. In recent years, I
authored “The Standard of Excellence,” a comprehensive book about amateur

wrestling. I am the proud father of Lieutenant Colonel Kurt, who has been
awarded four Bronze Stars and was a National wrestling champion. I am
currently writing two books, one of which is about “operational geniuses.” In

it, I describe in detail my friend, the late General Max Thurman, the genius,
who was the father of the U.S. Army’s phenomenally successful “BE ALL
YOU CAN BE!”

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