Fans of NCISverse: the wait is over. \u201cNCIS\u201d and its spinoffs have returned to the CBS screen, with back-to-back shows on Tuesday nights. In addition to an all-\u201cNCIS\u201d primetime lineup, the show honors the military community with a new initiative to highlight service members, veterans and Gold Star families.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n \u201cNCIS\u201d has announced \u201cTuesdays of Honor,\u201d a campaign to recognize military members throughout the season. Each week, <\/span>Wilmer Valderrama<\/span><\/a> \u2014 who plays Special Agent Nick Torres on the show and is a USO Global Ambassador in real life \u2014 and other cast members will meet military guests to show appreciation for their service and hear their stories. Partnering with TAPS<\/a>, Team Rubicon<\/a>, Lovesac<\/a> and Vizio<\/a>, the families will also be surprised with comfort-focused home upgrades.<\/span><\/p>\n With the show in its 23rd season, the \u201cNCIS\u201d cast and crew are no strangers to the military world, relying on veteran feedback and military consultants to accurately represent and honor the community they portray. Military life is central to the \u201cNCIS\u201d storyline, and everyone on set takes it to heart. For example, the technical director enjoys planning military field trips for the cast, and has taken them to visit aircraft carriers and the NCIS office in San Diego to deepen their understanding of their roles. (For all of the Army people out there: yes, I personally invited them to come to Fort Bragg. Just in case anyone wanted an Army-Navy crossover.)<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to consultants and field trips, \u201cNCIS\u201d remains rooted to its military legacy with appreciation events and initiatives like \u201cTuesdays of Honor.\u201d \u201cNCIS\u201d actor Gary Cole, who plays Special Agent Alden Parker,<\/span> even shared that CBS Studios recently hosted a special live script read in honor of the Navy\u2019s 250th birthday. The event was exclusive, and the invite-only audience were all military members and their families.\n<\/p>\n \u201cI can just say personally that one of the great things of being on this show for me is that I had the opportunity to interact with the military in a way I never had before,\u201d said Cole.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s always an honor to, you know, interact with and kind of salute \u2026 our service men and women,\u201d he added. \u201cThey\u2019re some of the best souls we\u2019ve got in this country, and we\u2019re proud to be \u2026. a show that kind of focuses on that aspect.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sean Murray is a familiar face on the \u201cNCIS\u201d show as Special Agent Tim McGee, the son of a Navy admiral but many may not realize how close the storyline is to real life. Murray is the son of a retired Navy captain, and during his father\u2019s 30 years of service in the Navy, their family lived all over the world, including Australia and Singapore.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n \u201cI was a little bit everywhere,\u201d he grinned.\n<\/p>\n Recalling \u201cthe honor and the code and the lessons of the different military services\u201d that he witnessed during childhood, Murray said those experiences now reflect in his acting. He acknowledged the similarities in what he saw growing up and his portrayal of an NCIS agent known for his loyalty and duty.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n \u201cI think that all plays into that \u2014 there\u2019s a sense of honor, sense of doing something right, and being responsible for things.\u201d<\/span>\n<\/p>\n As a highly popular program that is welcomed in homes all across America, \u201cNCIS\u201d has a distinct ability to show what many military families live daily. When asked what conversations they hope to generate with both the series and \u201cTuesdays of Honor,\u201d Cole responded that he\u2019d like to \u201cdemystify\u201d the military for those who have no connection to the services otherwise. He wants to show that the military community is made up of people who have the same \u201cstruggles and obstacles in their lives that everybody else does\u201d but combined with \u201c<\/span>a great deal of sacrifice and a perspective that a lot of people don\u2019t have \u2026 it\u2019s just important storytelling.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n You can catch the entire \u201cNCIS\u201d lineup on Tuesdays, starting with \u201cNCIS\u201d at 8\/7c, then \u201cNCIS: Origins,\u201d and concluding with \u201cNCIS: Sydney.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source militaryfamilies.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fans of NCISverse: the wait is over. \u201cNCIS\u201d and its spinoffs have returned to the CBS screen, with back-to-back shows on Tuesday nights. In addition to an all-\u201cNCIS\u201d primetime lineup, the show honors the military community with a new initiative to highlight service members, veterans and Gold Star families.\u00a0 \u201cNCIS\u201d has announced \u201cTuesdays of Honor,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2094300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[351570,315761,395281,395282,395283,362371],"class_list":["post-2094299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-gary-cole","tag-ncis","tag-sean-murray","tag-tuesdays-of-honor","tag-uso-global-ambassador","tag-wilmer-valderrama"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NCIS-returns-to-CBS-with-new-campaign-honoring-military.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094301,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094299\/revisions\/2094301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2094300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Military legacy<\/span><\/h2>\n
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