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

2003

• Marine Harriers participated in a major attack on a Taliban camp north of Spin Boldak, Afghanistan.
• Start of Battle of Baghdad in Iraq.
• 3d Infantry Division reaches Saddam International Airport on Baghdads’s western outskirts.

2006

• Marine Reservists of Headquarters Battery, 5th Battalion, 14th Marines, returned home to Seal Beach, California, following a six-month tour in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. All 125 members returned safely.

Casualties on April 03:

• BALES, CHAD ERIC – April 3, 2003
• DAVIS, WILBERT – April 3, 2003
• EVNIN, MARK ASHER – April 3, 2003
• KORN, JASON EDWARD – April 3, 2003
• LIVAUDAIS, NINO DUGUE – April 3, 2003
• LONG, RYAN PATRICK – April 3, 2003
• OAKS, DONALD SAMUEL JR – April 3, 2003
• REHN, RANDALL SCOTT – April 3, 2003
• RIPPETOE, RUSSELL BRIAN – April 3, 2003
• ROBBINS, TODD JAMES – April 3, 2003
• BARR, ARIC JULIUS – April 3, 2004
• RICHARDSON, WILLIAM DEAN – April 3, 2005
• SHERRILL, JAMES ALEXANDER – April 3, 2005
• BECKER, SHANE ROBERT – April 3, 2007
• FIGUEROA, GABRIEL JARED – April 3, 2007
• ROBERTSON, NICHOLAS ALAN – April 3, 2008
• GRIFFIN, TRAVIS LEE – April 3, 2008
• BEARD, DANIEL JAY – April 3, 2009
• DEARMON, STEPHEN FITZGERALD – April 3, 2009
• LEW, HARRY – April 3, 2011
• WELCH, ROBERT FORREST III – April 3, 2011
• SCATLIFFE, JORGE ANTONIO – April 3, 2011
• BORDONI, CHRISTOPHER DAVID – April 3, 2012
• BROWN, CHRISTOPHER LAWRANCE – April 3, 2012
• SMITH, TYLER JAMES – April 3, 2012
• WHITE, JEFFREY LEE JR – April 3, 2012
• STEEL, JAMES MICHAEL – April 3, 2013