Navy Federal Credit Union

Awards Received

  • Distinguished Flying Cross

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Lieutenant

    Action Date:

    April 20, 1967

    All Hands (February 1968)

    (Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant Richard A. Luker, United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight on 20 April 1967, as a wingman of a flak suppression division of A-4C aircraft involved in a coordinated air-wing strike against the Haiphong Thermal Power Plant (East) in North Vietnam.