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

2004

• The I Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group completed the longest convoy in the unit’s history after traveling over 800 km from staging areas in Kuwait to Forward Operating Base St. Mere, Iraq. The trek to the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division’s area of operation took three days. Marines were scheduled to replace the departing Army units in safety and stability operations in Iraq.

2006

• Hawaii-based Marines with 3d Battalion, 3d Marines, deployed to Iraq’s Al Anbar Province in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The unit had returned less than a year earlier from a seven-month deployment to Afghanistan. Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463 also deployed to Iraq two days later.

Casualties on March 11:

• DUNIGAN, JOE LARRY JR – March 11, 2004
• HILL, CHRISTOPHER KENNETH – March 11, 2004
• GRIFFITH, DONALD DELBERT JR – March 11, 2005
• WILSON, NICHOLAS EUGENE – March 11, 2005
• DUERKSEN, AMY ALISHA – March 11, 2006
• LATHAM, THOMAS LEE – March 11, 2007
• SMITH, JONATHAN KENA – March 11, 2007
• STONE, DOUGLAS CAMERON – March 11, 2007
• WINDSOR, NATHANIAL DAIN – March 11, 2007
• WOODCOCK, DANIEL EUGENE – March 11, 2007
• WEST, LAURENT JEROME – March 11, 2008
• GAMBLE, GARRETT WILLIAM – March 11, 2010
• HARPER, ANDREW MARTIN – March 11, 2011
• MULLER, IAN MATTHEW – March 11, 2011
• BLASS, STEVEN PATRICK – March 11, 2013
• HENDERSON, BRYAN JAMES – March 11, 2013
• KNUTSON, SARA MARIE – March 11, 2013
• PEDERSEN-KEEL, ANDREW MICHAEL – March 11, 2013
• SCHAD, REX LLOYD – March 11, 2013
• SCIALDO, MARC ANTHONY – March 11, 2013
• SHANNON, ZACHARY LEE – March 11, 2013
• MENDEZ COVARRUBIAS, JUAN MIGUEL – March 11, 2020
• ROBERTS, MARSHAL DAKOTA – March 11, 2020