 For his service with Sixth Fleet, Turner was decorated with Navy Distinguished Service Medal and also received Tunisian Order of the Republic by President Habib Bourguiba.Turner was ordered to Washington, D.C. in September 1976 and assumed duty as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air Warfare under CNO, Admiral Thomas B. Hayward.While at the Pentagon, he was the Navy sponsor of the F/A-18 Hornet.