‘Top Gun,’ brought to you by the U.S. military

Dust off your Ray-Ban aviators, throw on your bomber jacket and ride into the danger zone. Thirty-six years after “Top Gun,” Tom Cruise is back in the cockpit with “Top Gun: Maverick,” which opens across the country Friday.

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ rocks, with finesse, style and genuine emotion

As Cruise, who’s reprising his role as Navy Capt. Pete Mitchell (call sign: Maverick), put it: “It is heavy duty.” But not even Cruise could deliver such heavy duty by himself. So he joined forces with the most powerful organization in the world: the U.S. military.