I was going to say that while his acting was fine in Top Gun and A Few Good Men and such, he's also been paid for that, and I feel that an award should really require going above-and-beyond.
But I looked at the recipients of that medal, and it has a long list of political recipients, people like Jared Kushner. I'm not sure that the medal has a lot of integrity to safeguard.
Not that I would give him the award, but Tom Cruise's character in Top Gun has probably done more to get people to join the navy than any recruitment office could ever hope for.