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

2002

• The 11th MEU returned to Camp Pendleton as the six-month deployment of the Belleau Wood ARG came to an end. The unit did not see combat as many expected but did suffer the loss of three Marines. Lance Cpl Antonio Sledd was killed in a terrorist attack in Kuwait in which another Marine was also wounded, another Marine was presumed dead after he apparently fell from the flight deck of the USS Belleau Wood on 2 December, and another Marine died from an apparent suicide.
• Two Texas-based reinforced platoons from 1st Battalion, 23rd Marines returned home after being deployed in March to Guantanamo Bay to provide base security. The use of reservists in such a capacity relieved active-duty Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team (FAST) platoons, who normally would guard the base, to be used elsewhere in the ongoing war on terrorism.

2003

• In Operation Red Dawn, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, caputres Saddam in a “spider hole” in the town of Adwar on the Tigris River ten miles south of Tikrit.
• Whitehouse Press Briefing by White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan about the capture of Saddam.

Casualties on December 14:

• FERGUSON, RIAN CHRISTOPHER – December 14, 2003
• VOELZ, KIMBERLY ANN – December 14, 2003
• ANDERSON, MICHAEL DWAYNE JR – December 14, 2004
• MARTINEZ, VICTOR ALEJANDRO – December 14, 2004
• POSPISIL, KENNETH BLAKE – December 14, 2005
• PRESLEY, MICHAEL BRANDON – December 14, 2005
• CLARK, MATTHEW WILLIAM – December 14, 2006
• SPATOL, THEODORE ARNOLD – December 14, 2006
• YEPSEN, LUKE CARNEY – December 14, 2006
• LOWERY, JONATHAN ALLEN – December 14, 2007
• HERNANDEZ, JOSE ALONZO – December 14, 2010
• GRIFFITH, SAMUEL MARK – December 14, 2011
• GUILLORY, MICHAEL JAMES – December 14, 2012
• LIPARI, KEVIN ERNEST – December 14, 2012