Seriously?
LONDON (AP) — The world’s most famous fictional Top Gun is now a decorated naval hero.
Tom Cruise was awarded the U.S. Navy’s top civilian honor on Tuesday for “outstanding contributions to the Navy and the Marine Corps” with “Top Gun” and other films.
Cruise, who has been working in the U.K., was given the Distinguished Public Service Award by U.S. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro in a ceremony at Longcross Studios near London.
The 62-year-old actor said he was proud to receive the “extraordinary acknowledgement,” which came with a medal and a certificate. more
I bet he has his Mark Milley jacket on order.
Just one fake officer to another.
Admiral Rachel and Dr. Jill are so proud.
Back in the early 90’s when I was making SSBN deterrent patrols in the North Pacific we always watched Top Gun on “Halfway Night.” This was our best meal of the patrol with steak, lobster, king crab and Black Forest cake. We also had funny skits and different contests. The Executive Officer almost always ended up compacting lots of saved trash while wearing an EAB. Good times!
Good for him.
I can’t think of a more deserving civilian.
As a proud honorably discharged US Navy veteran I am not a Tom Cruise fan. He is not and never will be a true sailor or veteran of my US Navy no matter how he portrays himself as such in the movies.
I have no reason to doubt his patriotism or love of country. One main purpose of both films was to make the military more attractive and boost recruitment, it succeeded in spades;
https://screenrant.com/top-gun-us-navy-recruiting-applications-increase/
Love of country is rare in that den of vipers known as Hollywood, so when we see it in any fashion, it should be appluaded.
He’s an actor, pretending to be a patriot. Now he has a pretend award.
Tom Cruise absolutely FLIPPING OUT on his film crew during COVID.
https://youtu.be/tHteO55JzD4
He’s an actor.
The MOVIES are FUN & MASCULINE!
Hopefully it attracts MEN to Join up.
or would you rather they give an Honor to that SOC-O-SHIT Clooney & his Actvist Sleeper Cell Wife?
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Was he wearing his “elevator boots” when presented with the award?
Lindsey Graham was RECRUITING retired pilots to go die, er fight, in Ukraine.
Send lil Mr Cruise, I hear he loves to do his own stunts.
https://screenrant.com/top-gun-us-navy-recruiting-applications-increase/
So when do I get to date Kelly McGillis?
^^^^
LOL, Have you SEEN Kelly McGillis lately? Have fun and bring a bag a flour.
Brad
I know you will get a kick out of this, Tom Cruise never looked so good;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDUh67vxPbU&ab_channel=CHPSanDiego
Yeah, more gym, less donuts.
A few years back, I was watching a Hallmark movie, and this overweight grandma looked so familiar that it took me about five minutes to recognize Kelly McGillis. Age has not been kind.
Rich
Wow, I bet that was fun to make. Nobody where’s aviators like the CHP. You guys must take classes.
I like Tom Cruz. While everyone else in Hollywood was tripping over themselves to go woke he made a great patriotic movie and showed China the middle finger while doing it. You’ve probably seen this before but I think this is my favorite Cruz clip.
https://youtu.be/Omgf9WuGwq8
They also mentioned Cruise in A Few Good Men but all I remember from that one is Jack Nicholson ‘s Colonel Jessup
Bad_Brad , thanks for sharing that , never saw Tropic Thunder. Cruise looked great as a baldie .
Geni
I think that was the only redeeming feature of that movie.
OKAY thanks Brad . I haven’t seen the 2nd Top Gun yet but enjoyed the first . Actors can be annoying when they’re playing the parts of our Men in Uniform . I saw a good movie where Kevin Bacon played the part of a Marine who took on the duty of notifying the loved ones of fallen Marines and prior to the movie’s release while promoting it he complained about how scratchy the dress uniform was. And the thought occurred to me that it might really be uncomfortable to dodge a rain of bullets and incoming FIRE . That’s just my take on things. Actors are paid a lot of money for their “work’ .
Geni
Although not as good as Top Gun, the original, in my opinion, Top Gun 2 is still a must see. And it does shine a very positive light on our Military.
Geni
Be sure and watch the best Christmas movie ever this year. Die Hard. LOL
I don’t know what happened with my phone but I haven’t been able to give anyone here s thumbs up 👍 so there you go
Bad_Brad , Die Hard is one of my favorite Christmas movies!! Yippee Kai Yay… not gonna type it… nope!!
Geni
I’m sure we can get an argument going over Die Hard being a Christmas movie with someone. Of course it’s a Christmas movie. It has Christmas Music.
It took place during a Christmas party plus the chauffeur Argyle mentioned it near the end when it was “snowing” . Great movie !!
Bad_Brad
Thursday, 19 December 2024, 16:10 at 4:10 pm
Geni
“I’m sure we can get an argument going over Die Hard being a Christmas movie with someone. Of course it’s a Christmas movie. It has Christmas Music.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/The1980s/comments/zr2ewl/rambo_is_a_christmas_movie/#lightbox
“RAMBO Is A Christmas Movie ”
LOL, I’m good with that too.
https://www.mockingbirdandfox.com/products/hans-gruber-advent-calendar-nakatomi-tower-advent-calendar-die-hard-advent-calendar
Watching Die Hard is a required Christmas tradition here.
Required by my wife. 👍
Truckbuddy
It’s a family tradition. And the wives are all in.
Still waiting for Kelsey Grammer to be recognized for recruitment to the submarine force for his role in “Down Periscope,” the most accurate depiction of submariners ever put on film!