Navy Federal Credit Union

Recipients

  • Robert Wilke

    Robert Wilke

    Robert F. Wilke is a 1965 graduate of Texas A & M University. He was promoted to the rank of Colonel during the period he…

  • John Lackey

    John Lackey

    Following his Vietnam War service, John Lackey served as a member of the New Mexico Air National Guard. He was killed while flying an A-7d…

  • William Cooper

    William Cooper

    William Cooper enlisted originally in the U.S. Army, obtaining an OCS commission in 1942. Before the end of World War II he transferred to the…

  • Jon Harston

    Jon Harston

    Staff Sergeant Harston was Flight Mechanic on board “Knife 31” during the Mayaguez recovery operations, and was one of FOUR men awarded the Air Force…

  • Gerald Gustafson

    Gerald Gustafson

    Major Gustafson along with Lieutenant Colonel Robert W. Smith and Major Bruce Stocks all received Air Force Crosses for the same mission on November 19,…

  • Lawrence Guarino

    Lawrence Guarino

    As a fighter pilot in World War II, serving in both the Mediterranean theater of action and also in the Asia-Pacific theater, Lawrence Guarino was…

  • John Allison

    John Allison

    John Allison served as an Aviation Mechanic in the U.S. Navy during World War II. In 1950 he entered the U.S. Air Force Cadet program,…

  • Richard Allee

    Richard Allee

    Major Allee was listed as Missing In Action following his shoot-down on December 21, 1968 and until August 17, 1979, when he was declared Killed…

  • Victor Adams

    Victor Adams

    Victor Adams helicopter was shot down during a mission to rescue a trapped Six-Man Special Forces Long Range Reconnaissance patrol. The six men were subsequently…

  • Rowland Worrell

    Rowland Worrell

    Rowland Worrell Graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado, Class of 1968. He retired in 1996 as a U.S. Air Force…

  • Terence Courtney

    Terence Courtney

    Terrence Courtney was commissioned through the Air Force ROTC Program.

  • Richard Ritchie

    Richard Ritchie

    Richard Ritchie Graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado, Class of 1964. During his flying career he became one of the…