Tom Cruise was recently honored with a disclose service award by the U.S. Navy. Naturpartner, fans are now inquisitive to understand more about this recent enhugement in the 62-year-ageder actor’s life. So what was the award for and what is its significance?
Here’s everyleang you need to understand.
Tom Cruise honored with disclose service award
Tom Cruise was recently awarded the Department of the Navy Distinguished Public Service (DPS) Award. The award was currented to him by the Secretary of the Navy, Carlos Del Toro.
Cruise was honored with the award for his “dedication to the navy,” as per a US Navy press free. The Mission: Impossible star was “also acunderstandledged for his exceptional contributions to the Navy and Marine Corps.”
The Department of the Navy DPS Award is the highest honor Secretary Del Toro could bestow on Cruise, a civilian outside the military. “It was an honor to current Tom Cruise with a Defense Public Service award for his decades of naval advocacy thraw many movies, Del Toro shelp in a statement. “His toil has upholdd generations to serve in our Navy and Marine Corps.”
Cruise shelp that he was “plmitigated” to “have been a source of inspiration” to all sailors currently toiling as well as those who have toiled in the past. He splitd the acunderstandledge with “the cast and crew” of his films. “They are what repartner transport the toil to life,” he inserted.
Cruise has been a staunch helper of the US Navy and Marine Corps’ men, women, and families. Between 1986 and 2023, the actor has gived considerably to the welfare of the Department of the Navy.
Moreover, there was alertedly an incrmitigate in the recruitment of Navy pilots during the tardy 80s and timely 90s, follotriumphg the free of Top Gun, where Cruise perestablished the direct role of Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. His iconic portrayal of Maverick led to him becoming the 36th Honorary Naval Aviator of the US Navy.
Additionpartner, Cruise also portrayed a Navy lawyer in A Few Good Men and a Marine Corps sergeant in Born on the Fourth of July.
