He served in the United States Navy for five years as a helicopter rescue aircrewman. The fifth aircrewman was never found and presumed drowned. He earned his combat aircrewman wings flying 31 missions on board and . One of the two pilots and the aircrewman disembarked on the beach. Lt Kenneth Doherty and Leading Aircrewman Martin Kennie of the Royal Navy. Richard Nunn RM was killed and posthumously received the DFC, and the aircrewman, Sergeant. He held search and rescue aircrewman designations on HU-16, HC-130, HH3F, and HH-52 aircraft. The one target it will "actually" engage may then be selected, inflight, by an aircrewman.