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Tom Cruise honoured with US Navy's highest civilian award

The Top Gun star is being celebrated for spiking military recruitment with his screen roles.

Cruise starred as the pilot Maverick in Top Gun, a movie about Cold War flying aces, and it was so influential that the Navy even set up recruitment tables in theatres. The Oscar nominated star reprised his role as Lieutenant Pete Mitchell in the 2022 sequel Top Gun: Maverick, which the Navy said "reinvigorated" military interest from younger audiences. Cruise's lead role in the 1986 smash hit Top Gun shot him into celebrity status, and the film's record-breaking success spiked military enlistment.

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