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

2005

• Marine reservists with 3d Battalion, 25th Marines, returned to Camp Lejeune. The unit, comprised of Marines from Ohio, West Virginia, and New York, lost 48 troops in action, including 19 over a two-day-period in early August 2005. The unit was deployed for seven months to Iraq’s hostile Al Anbar province.

2006

• Operation Iron Arrow II in Iraq

2007

• Marines with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232 (VMFA-232), who had deployed with the USS Nimitz for seven months, returned home to California. The squadron logged approximately 2,400 flight hours and participated in both Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
• Operation Anchorage in Iraq

Casualties on September 30:

• BADDICK, ANDREW JOSEPH – September 30, 2003
• MCGAUGH, DUSTIN KNIGHT – September 30, 2003
• POTTER, DARRIN KEITH – September 30, 2003
• CUNNINGHAM, DARREN JAMES – September 30, 2004
• JONES, RODNEY AARON – September 30, 2004
• NOLAN, ALLEN DUANE – September 30, 2004
• DOLES, JOHN GLEN – September 30, 2005
• STODDARD, JAMES JOHN JR – September 30, 2005
• NISELY, SCOTT EVAN – September 30, 2006
• SOURIVONG, KAMPHA BUTCH – September 30, 2006
• TEJEDA, LUIS ENRIQUE – September 30, 2006
• WEBER, ROBERT FRANCIS – September 30, 2006
• OLGUIN, RANDELL – September 30, 2007
• BARTKIEWICZ, CHRISTOPHER ALL – September 30, 2008
• FRENCH, ALEX IV – September 30, 2009
• JACKSON, TIMOTHY MATTHEW – September 30, 2010
• WEATHERS, ANDREW TARRANT – September 30, 2014