US Navy – The US announces it will deploy a limited antiballistic missile system in 2004; a boost-phase intercept component of it will be sea based on Aegis-equipped destroyers using Standard missiles.

• Washington Post: Missile Defense To Start in 2004
• New York Times: Bush Ordering Missile Shield

US Marines – Part 3 in the series of what is wrong with the Harrier jump-jet.

• Los Angeles Times: ‘At Least We Got to Kiss Him Goodbye’

US Marines – Another in the series of articles on the experiences of individuals who have joined the Marines since 9/11.

• Washington Post: Enlistee Finds Parallels to Past