The following are events related to the Global War On Terrorism (GWOT) that took place on this day.

2001

• Alpha Team 553 links up with General Karim Khalili.
• Alpha Team 534 inserts south of Mazar-e-Sharif to aid Dostum and Alpha Team 595.

2005

• A Marine AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter crashed near Ramadi, Iraq, killing both crewmembers during daylong fighting. Witnesses stated they saw the helicopter take ground fire and break up in the air. The next day, al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for the crash. The lost Marines were part of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 369.

2007

• Marines assigned to Task Force National Capital Region deployed to Iraq for seven months. Made up of more than 200 Marines, nearly all volunteers, from various commands in the Washington, D.C., area, the unit was formed in June in order to give Marines a chance to deploy from usually non-deployable duty stations such as MCB Quantico.

2008

• Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 369 began leaving Camp Pendleton to begin another seven-month deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Casualties on November 02:

• BADER, DANIEL AARON – November 2, 2003
• BUCKLEW, ERNEST GLENN – November 2, 2003
• COLGAN, BENJAMIN JOSEPH – November 2, 2003
• CONOVER, STEVEN DANIEL – November 2, 2003
• DAGOSTINO, ANTHONY DOMENIC – November 2, 2003
• JENNINGS, DARIUS TOMEL – November 2, 2003
• LAU, KARINA SOTELO – November 2, 2003
• MOSS, KEELAN LAMONT – November 2, 2003
• PENISTEN, BRIAN HAMILTON – November 2, 2003
• PENNANEN, ROSS ALAN – November 2, 2003
• PEREZ, JOEL – November 2, 2003
• SLAVENAS, BRIAN DONATUS – November 2, 2003
• SMITH, BRUCE ALAN – November 2, 2003
• VEGA, FRANCES M – November 2, 2003
• VELAZQUEZ, PAUL ANTHONY – November 2, 2003
• WILSON, JOE NATHAN – November 2, 2003
• BLOOMFIELD, GERALD MICHAEL II – November 2, 2005
• FERDERER, DENNIS JAMES JR – November 2, 2005
• MACKENZIE, TYLER RYAN – November 2, 2005
• MARTINO, MICHAEL DAVID – November 2, 2005
• MUNGER, JOSHUA JAMES – November 2, 2005
• PROCOPIO, MARK JAMES – November 2, 2005
• SMITH, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER – November 2, 2005
• BRIDGES, MICHAEL PAUL – November 2, 2006
• BROWN, JAMES ERIC – November 2, 2006
• FINKEN, PAUL JOHN – November 2, 2006
• GAGE, JOSEPH ALAN – November 2, 2006
• HOLLER, LUKE BENJAMIN – November 2, 2006
• KRUGER, ERIC JOHN – November 2, 2006
• LASKY, MICHAEL HOWARD – November 2, 2006
• WHITEHOUSE, JASON DANIEL – November 2, 2006
• WALLS, JOHNNY CARL – November 2, 2007
• SYLVESTRE, JONATHON MATTHEW – November 2, 2009
• ZIMMERMAN, JAMES RUSSELL – November 2, 2010