A powerful congressional committee is probing a secret Navy program studying potential traumatic brain injuries suffered by ...

Tom Cruise doesn't have anything to do with it, but the Navy flight school featured in the "Top Gun" movies really exists.

The House Oversight Committee is demanding the Navy reveal more information about a secret effort to learn more about a brain injury phenomenon among its most elite fighter pilots.

The Navy quietly started screening elite fighter pilots for signs of brain injuries caused by flying, a risk it officially denies exists. By Dave Philipps The Navy’s elite TOPGUN pilot school ...

The Navy Department said Cruise's films greatly helped the Navy recruit pilots during the late 1980s ... after he starred as a naval aviator in Top Gun in 1986 and resurrected his role in Top ...

Review & Outlook: The 1986 movie, ‘Top Gun,’ was credited with boosting recruitment rates to the Navy by 500%. Perhaps the sequel, 'Top Gun: Maverick,' can do the same as it soars at the box ...

Even if you only know "Top Gun" as that fighter-jet movie, you have a good idea what the school is about. But some moviegoers might not realize that it's a real school the Navy sends pilots to.