Confirmed, 53-43: Confirmation of the en bloc nominations provided for under the provisions of S.Res.532.

If you’re an exceptional technologist or builder with a proven track record, and want to serve our nation as a Direct Commission Navy Officer, apply for the highly selective Navy Innovation Unit. You will get our thorniest problems. We expect rapid and transformative results.

The U.S. government just unveiled the majestic Greco-Deco design for the new federal courthouse in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The building is at once monumental and welcoming, classical and original. The iris capitals are an inspired touch, drawing on Tennessee’s natural beauty and weaving it into the stone of a federal building. The Chattanooga courthouse is precisely the kind of building that President Trump’s Executive Order on federal architecture—“Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again”—was designed to produce. When the courthouse is completed, it will stand as the living proof that the Order represents wise and humane public policy—something all Americans, regardless of political party, can and should support. Beautiful public buildings are not a partisan matter; they belong to everyone.

OTD in 1864: 100,000 men vanished overnight, and the greatest general of the age had no idea where they went. This might be the most underrated move of the Civil War. Context: Grant had just spent ten days locked in trench warfare at Cold Harbor, Virginia, after a frontal assault on June 3 that cost him thousands of men in under an hour. He admitted it was the worst mistake of his career. The armies were so close that soldiers could not lift their heads above the dirt in daylight. Everyone, including Lee, expected Grant to do what every Union commander before him did after a bloody repulse: retreat north and regroup. Instead, on the night of June 12, Grant did something audacious. He pulled the entire Army of the Potomac out of trenches that were in some places only yards from Confederate lines. No bugles, no fires, wheels muffled. By morning the Union trenches were empty and Lee's scouts found nothing but abandoned earthworks. The army marched south, away from Richmond, which made no sense to Confederate observers. Then Union engineers did something almost nobody thought possible: they threw a pontoon bridge across the James River, roughly 2,100 feet of it, over water up to 85 feet deep with a four-foot tidal swing. They built it in about eight hours. It was one of the longest floating bridges in military history. For three full days Lee was effectively blind, unsure whether Grant was north or south of the James. By the time the picture cleared, Grant's army was across the river attacking Petersburg, the rail hub that fed Richmond. The siege that followed lasted nine months and ended with Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Everyone remembers Cold Harbor as Grant's worst day. Almost nobody remembers that one week later he pulled off the maneuver that won the war.

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⚓️📰 #USNAVY UPDATE: The Navy Reserve is opening a new direct-commission pathway into the Navy Innovation Unit, recruiting elite engineers, architects and builders to solve maritime technology challenges. Keep your civilian job. Serve the mission. @USNavy navy.mil/press-office/press-…

If you’re an exceptional technologist or builder with a proven track record, and want to serve our nation as a Direct Commission Navy Officer, apply for the highly selective Navy Innovation Unit. You will get our thorniest problems. We expect rapid and transformative results.

⚓️📰 #USNAVY UPDATE: The Navy Reserve is opening a new direct-commission pathway into the Navy Innovation Unit, recruiting elite engineers, architects and builders to solve maritime technology challenges. Keep your civilian job. Serve the mission. @USNavy navy.mil/press-office/press-…

The 38th Assistant Commandant of the #MarineCorps, Gen. Bradford J. Gering, attends the 2026 Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point Harrier Sundown Ceremony at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. The AV-8B Harrier was the first vertical/short takeoff and landing aircraft in Marine Corps history, enabling operations from carriers, advanced bases, expeditionary airfields and remote tactical landing sites. #Sundown #Harrier #USMC

Welcome home!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 📍NORFOLK, Va. – Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) returned to its homeport of Norfolk, Virginia on June 6 following a historic 10-month deployment to the U.S. Fourth Fleet area of operations. MORE: usff.navy.mil/Press-Room/New…

My grandparents prayed for 30 years that they’d live to see all their grandchildren get married. Tonight they went 9-for-9.

On June 6, 1944, the Germans knew one thing for certain: to invade France, the Allies needed a port. So they fortified every port on the French coast. Cherbourg. Calais. Boulogne. Turned them into fortresses. Poured millions of tons of concrete into the Atlantic Wall. The Allies simply decided to bring their own port with them. This is the story of the Mulberry Harbours, and it might be the single most audacious engineering feat in military history. The problem was simple and brutal. You cannot sustain an invasion army of millions of men on landing craft alone. You need docks. Cranes. Piers. The infrastructure to pour supplies ashore by the thousands of tons every single day. Without a working port, any beachhead would eventually starve and collapse. The Germans knew this. Their entire coastal defense strategy was built on it. What they never imagined was that the Allies would build two fully functioning deep-water harbors in Britain, dismantle them into pieces, tow them across the English Channel, and reassemble them off the beaches of Normandy. Starting in December 1943, 37,000 workers across Britain began secretly manufacturing the components. The project was so large it strained the entire British economy. 146 massive concrete caissons called Phoenixes, each one 60 metres long and 18 metres tall. Miles of floating steel roadways. Pontoon bridges. Breakwaters. Pier heads. Enough material to build a small city. They built dry docks in the Thames and Clyde rivers just to construct the caissons. 1.5 million yards of steel shuttering. 31,000 tons of steel. Workers had no idea what they were building or why. When D-Day came, tugboats began towing the pieces across the Channel at just 8 kilometres per hour. Hundreds of individual components, each one a logistical nightmare to move, crossing open water in the wake of the largest invasion fleet ever assembled. Within 12 days, two working harbours stood off the Normandy coast. Mulberry A at Omaha Beach for the Americans. Mulberry B at Arromanches for the British and Canadians. Then, on June 19, the worst storm to hit the Normandy coast in 40 years tore through the Channel. For three days the storm raged. When it cleared, Mulberry A at Omaha was gone. 21 of 28 caissons completely destroyed. The piers smashed. The roadways scattered. The Americans scrapped it entirely and cannibalized the wreckage to repair the British harbor. Mulberry B at Arromanches survived, barely, because of its slightly more sheltered position. That one surviving harbor then proceeded to supply the entire Allied liberation of Western Europe. 2.5 million men. 500,000 vehicles. 4 million tons of supplies. All landed through an artificial harbor that was designed, built, floated, towed across the Channel, and assembled in secret, in less than six months. After the war, Nazi armaments minister Albert Speer put it plainly. Germany had spent 13 million cubic tonnes of concrete and 1.5 million tons of steel building the Atlantic Wall to deny the Allies a port. "A fortnight after the landings," Speer said, "this costly effort was brought to nought by an idea of simple genius." They built their own port. And they brought it with them.