World’s most loved Naval Aviator gets medal
Cruise with his Navy Distinguished Public Service Award
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro feels a need…a need for speed. He knows that while everyone has a gun, there can be only one at the top. Del Toro has given one of the service’s highest civilian honors to Tom Cruise. Maverick has gotten the Distinguished Public Service medal reports Breitbart. He’s gotten this for his support of the Navy, as Tom Cruise is about 85% of the reason anyone enlists into the Navy. He supplanted the Village People in the role of citizen naval recruiter. Curiously, the Village People have, to the best of my knowledge, never received any similar (or lesser) award for their boosting of recruiting into the nation’s sea service.
We gave AW1Ed the option of posting this himself, but for some reason he didn’t want to. We think he might have lost that loving feeling.
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I wonder what Iceman thinks?
Slider, sniff, still stinks…
Maybe Del Toro wants give Cruise a little “Goose” ?
Well, ain’t he just so special? *POOT!*
Richard Dean Anderson got an honorary promotion to one star General for all the recruitment Stargate SG1 did for the Air Force, but Maverick only got a medal?
Funny.
The timing was off, think of how much good old Macgiver could have done for the Space Farce.
Y’all officially suck.
::snicker::
Well, you know…
A bunch of shirtless Naval Orators in short shorts playing beach volleyball. Makes sense.
The volleyball scene for Hack Stone’s cinematic masterpiece about his attending Radio Technician Course in 29 Stumps (working title Top Soldering Gun) takes place on the shores of Lake Bandini. IFYKYK.
Camp Wilson was just some old A frame qouncet huts. Now they have a chow hall and px. And these kids are still complaining. I swear to god there are dead Indians out there. But I was there for the new bathroom, shower facilities.
That’s where we had rugby practice for the base team.
Speaking of volleyball
And y’all know Tarantino’s smart-ass (parody) take:
*** Yawn ***
Is that the Ukraine 100% United Way Medal?
Maybe… ask Hunter.
Now, now, now, don’t be hating on “Tiny” Tom. After all, wasn’t there some awards passed out for other Navy/Naval Aviation Documentaries? And for those that don’t know, DaNang Dick hisself has got one.
AFAIK, “Hanoi Jane” Fonda has more time in Vietnam than “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal.
That Dick never left CONUS.
Maybe he also lost the need for speed.
He will forever ride the flightlines on his Jap bike.
Indeed he will.
Proof that Top Gun was a documentary!
I feel the need, the need for speed!
47 in a 15 zone. (Grin)
The officer was … pissed.
It doesn’t quite have the cachet of an impact Legion of Merit, but it’ll do.
I doubt that Tom went “all the way” with the CG.
Still waiting on Kelsey Grammer to receive a similar award for recruitment to the submarine force for his role in “Down Periscope,” the most accurate depiction of submariners ever put on film.
I loved that Smokeboat flick with the oddball characters like watching Kelly’s Heros. I got a chance to go on an active sub when one was tied up on pier 12 Norfolk NOB. break for lunch, I went across the pier and requested permission to come aboard and the OOD told asked one of the crew members to give me the 50 cent tour. the D&S piers were full so the sub tied up at pier 12. We were tied up at the D&S piers one time and the USS Franklin was across from us waiting to be towed out and turned into razor blades.
I’m not a Tom Curse fan!
And yet Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor couldn’t help save the Marine Corps’s M-1’s.
M-1’s, I’m a member of the elite M-1 thumb club
The Village People can rest easy knowing they still have the market cornered for the increase in gay construction workers in the early 80s.
I need to put my two and a half scents in on this one.
I’m not a huge Tom Cruise fan from wayback, but I do need to put out a couple of my opinions for dissection on the message boards.
I like how Tom Cruise treats Veterans and Active Duty Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and of course the real crazy suckers in the Coast Guard who actually go out into hurricanes to rescue people when they have no chance of rescue in the first place.
He gives Veterans the respect they have earned and point out just how much of an adventure Military Service is.
How else would I get to climb mountains in Alaska in 1975 or teach snow skiing to Marines at Crystal Mountain Washington ? (That’s how I caught the PTSD, talk about stress)
I’m from Iowa for God’s sake, the highest elevation in Iowa is about as high as the biggest corncrib on Dailey’s farm.
The P-51 he was working on is his own plane and he pretty much built it himself, along with other certified Aircraft Mechanics.
His movies Collateral and Oblivion are good solid movies and to see Val Kilmer in such a state, accurate to my knowledge, was tough. But He and all those others that worked on that film went through tons of stuff way above and beyond anything that so many others would have walked away from.
I feel the same about a lot of other non Veteran actors.
We grew up watching the movies of so many that served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam.
Veterans in the movies are hard to find these days, but resorting to Matt Damon, Linus in Oceans 11 and an unstoppable killer as Jason Bourne is beyond lame…
Cruise said making movies is just as hard as serving, his words not mine. So when he sends us part of his 600 million dollar of his cultist fortune, I might stop making fun of tiny Tom. The guy is not Gary Sienese, but maybe you got some of his coconut cake he even sends to Rosie O’Donnell that hates our ass.
Everybody gets the chance to say something incredibly stupid more times than can be counted throughout their lifespan.
Then there’s this from a little while ago.
We can’t carry grudges for mistakes made in our own past. Nobody knows how to get mad at anyone anymore.
You get mad at someone, you get over it and you go back to being friends or at least respectful competitors.
You don’t hate them forever. That’s childish and a waste of energy let alone a huge detriment to our society.
“I admire all of the servicemen and women,” Cruise said. “I know in life, something that is very true to me, is that is to lead is to serve. And I know that to my core. And I see that in the servicemen and women.”
Keep in mind, he is a highly successful and highly paid actor. His talent is to make you believe he is something he is most assuredly not.
Which is more likely to be the real Tom Cruise, the lines he delivers for a prepared appearance, or losing his shit when someone spontaneously annoys or excites him?
Trick question. Both are performances. Actors are often professional sociopaths. They can be amusing, entertaining, even moving. But remember always they are what they are. Its their nature.
And I still haven’t gotten my Navy Cross for my exceptional, above and beyond the call of duty ability to fill out forms do deny Infantry units all the supplies they requested in a timely manner, as prescribed in the Supply Administration Guidelines of the Department of the Navy, 1970- 1990 (incl.) as a Supply Administration and Operations Man in the United States Marine Corps.
So much for appreciation….