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German General Wilhelm Falley, 91st Air-Landing Infantry Division, had a pretty crappy morning on June 6, 1944. First, he had to leave his headquarters early to make the long drive, easily two hours or more to Rennes, for a war game. Plus the stormy weather the night before had certainly turned conditions muddy. And then, during the drive, he learned that the exact scenario he practiced for, an Allied invasion of France, was actually taking place that exact moment. And when he raced back to his headquarters, American paratroopers greeted him. Aggressively.
Bad. Morning.

PHILADELPHIA — Senior Army leaders, from Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to Futures Command head Gen. James Rainey, have talked about how the service needs to fix its network. Officials overseeing that transformation see progress being made, but much more work lies ahead.

June 6, 1944 is one of the most significant dates in modern history. Whether it’s referred to as Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy or simply D-Day, the landing of Allied troops on the European continent began the liberation of France and paved the way for an Allied victory in Europe during WWII. Depicted in media like Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, Medal of Honor, and Call of Duty, the real-life heroism of Allied troops hitting the beaches and dropping from the skies on D-Day is forever ingrained in the world’s memory.

Video and images have emerged on social media claiming to show the destruction of an S-400 or S-300 surface-to-air (SAM) system in Belgorod, Russia, by an M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS. The attack on the SAM, located about 30 miles north of the border, comes just days after the Biden administration approved the use of U.S.-donated weapons like HIMARS on Russian soil to disrupt the ongoing offensive pushing toward Kharkiv.
The video and images were first posted by the Russian Spy Dossier Telegram channel on Monday.

Official Army portrait for Waverly B. Woodson Jr. (U.S. Army photo).
Corporal Waverly Woodson was 21 on June 6, 1944, when he landed on Omaha Beach as a combat medic with the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion — an often-overlooked unit that was the only all-Black U.S. military element to storm the beach on D-Day.
“The tide brought us in, and that’s when the 88s hit us,” Woodson Woodson talked to the Associated Press in 1994, describing German 88mm guns. “They were murder. Of our 26 Navy personnel there was only one left. They raked the whole top of the ship and killed all the crew.

Four companies are now set to design, build, and flight test new low-cost cruise missile concepts for the U.S. Air Force within the next seven months. A core goal is also to demonstrate new technologies and techniques to enable the rapid scaling up of production. The U.S. military has a clear and now long-standing desire for cheap and highly producible stand-off munitions.

There are increasing signs that Ukraine may be successfully pushing back the Russian offensive in the Kharkiv region, at least in some areas.
Speaking during a national telethon, Yurii Fedorenko, the commander of a drone company within the Ukrainian 92nd Mechanized Brigade, said that Ukraine’s position had begun to get better in the war-torn region.
“We are improving our position. Work is underway to knock the enemy out of occupied positions. In addition, to destroy its reserves, equipment, and other means with which it is trying to operate.

The new medical facility, capable of conducting surgery by the frontlines, came online two years early, deploying at exercise Rhino Run.

A Spanish NASAMS anti-air defence unit has been deployed in Estonia since April 2023. (GBAD Task Force Estonia)
The Spanish government has signed a EUR410 million (nearly USD434 million) contract for the acquisition of the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS), Kongsberg announced in a press release on 29 May.

The introduction of the Gray Eagle 25M marks a change in ARNG’s reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition (RSTA) capabilities.