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

2005

• Cpl Wassef Ali Hassoun was once again declared a deserter by the Marine Corps when he failed to return from leave to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. The corporal was scheduled for a court hearing on 13 January in regards to his 19 June 2004 disappearance while serving in Iraq. Originally cleared of the desertion charge for the first incidence, the investigation was re-opened November 2004 after some of Cpl Hassoun’s personal affects were discovered in Fallujah, Iraq.

2006

• Marines with 1st Battalion, 3d Marines, deployed to Afghanistan from Hawaii in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. This was the unit’s second deployment to Afghanistan and replaced fellow Marines from 2d Battalion, 3d Marines. Marines with 2d Battalion, 3d Marines, began arriving home at Kanehoe Bay, Hawaii, four days later.
• Operation Counterstrike

2007

• The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) deployed as part of the Bataan Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG), taking with it the first Marine Special Operations Company (MSOC) to ever be deployed.

Casualties on January 05:

• FRIST, LUKE PEIRCE – January 5, 2004
• CANN, ADAM LEIGH – January 5, 2006
• GETTINGS, ALBERT PASQUALE – January 5, 2006
• HECKER, WILLIAM FREDER III – January 5, 2006
• LOPEZ-REYES, JASON – January 5, 2006
• MARIANO, ROBBIE MATTHEW – January 5, 2006
• MCCURDY, RYAN STANLEY – January 5, 2006
• MCLAUGHLIN, MICHAEL ERICH – January 5, 2006
• PERALEZ, JOHNNY JOE JR – January 5, 2006
• PETTY, CHRISTOPHER PAUL – January 5, 2006
• WALKER, RYAN DORAN – January 5, 2006
• WHITE, STEPHEN JEROME – January 5, 2006
• JOHNSON, JEREMIAH JEWEL – January 5, 2007
• MUNDELL, MICHAEL LEWIS – January 5, 2007
• LEMKE, JASON FLOYD – January 5, 2008
• CROFT, DAVID ANDREW JR – January 5, 2010
• NETTLETON, ERIC MARCEL – January 5, 2011
• PHARRIS, ROBERT WAYNE – January 5, 2011
• ROMIG, CHRISTIAN JOSEPH – January 5, 2011
• BELL, BRYAN RICHARD – January 5, 2012
• SCHWARTZ, MATTHEW SCOTT – January 5, 2012
• SEIDLER, MATTHEW RYAN – January 5, 2012
• MCCLINTOCK, MATTHEW QUINN – January 5, 2016