* C. S. Knighton, Pepys and the Navy ( Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2003 ).

Weapons using the EFP principle have already been used in combat ; the " smart " submunitions in the CBU-97 cluster bomb used by the US Air Force and Navy in the 2003 Iraq war employed this principle, and the US Army is reportedly experimenting with precision-guided artillery shells under Project SADARM ( Seek And Destroy ARMor ).

On 20 March 2003 the Navy SEALs launched what is the largest single SEAL operation in history from US Naval vessels, Ras al-Qulayah Naval Base and Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait as part of a mixed force of US Navy SEALs, Polish GROM and British Royal Marines.

It was built in 2003 in Norway, is based in Brest, France | Brest, belongs to SURF and is used by the French Navy.

A Military Programation Law ( Lei de Programação Militar ) was launched in 2002 to start the complete modernization of the Armed Forces ; considerable reequipment of the military started in 2003, with Defense Minister Paulo Portas, who managed to acquire new helicopters ( Army and Air Force ), submarines, IFV ( Army and Navy ), frigates and naval patrol boats.

* Benjamin Thurman Hacker ( 1935 – 2003 ), U. S. Navy Officer, first Naval Flight Officer to achieve flag rank

In 2000, Rosselló and then President Bill Clinton signed an agreement that the Navy would withdraw from Vieques by the year 2003, if voters in Vieques ratified the agreement in a referendum.

Despite political grandstanding from the Calderón administration calling of an earlier withdrawal, the Navy left Vieques on May 1, 2003, the very same date President Clinton and Governor Rosselló had agreed upon.

* 2003: Edward Fedora and Gisela Fedora were charged with violating, Unlawful Sale of a Medal of Honor, for selling medals awarded to U. S. Navy Sailor Robert Blume ( for action in the Spanish-American War ) and to U. S. Army First Sergeant George Washington Roosevelt ( for action in the Civil War ) to an FBI agent.

In January 2003, a woman took an axe to the nose cone and fuel lines of a US Navy jet ; however, a trial ended in her acquittal.

In February 2003, a group known as the Pitstop Ploughshares damaged a United States Navy C-40 Clipper aircraft at the airport.

William Cameron " Willie " McCool ( September 23, 1961 – February 1, 2003 ) was a United States Navy Commander, NASA astronaut and the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.

David McDowell Brown ( April 16, 1956 – February 1, 2003 ) was a United States Navy Captain and a NASA astronaut.

Laurel Blair Salton Clark ( March 10, 1961 – February 1, 2003 ) was a medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle mission specialist who was killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

Past honorees have included: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ( 2002 ), Senator Joe Lieberman ( 1997 ), Senator Max Cleland ( 2000 ), then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney ( 1991 ), all three Secretaries of the U. S. Armed Services ( 2001 ), Congresswoman Jane Harman and Congressman Jim Saxton ( 2003 ), Indiana Senator Evan Bayh ( 2004 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace ( USMC ) ( 2005 ), Senator John McCain ( 2006 ), Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ( 2007 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen ( 2008 ), and ( 2009 ) all five chiefs of the U. S. Armed Forces and the Commander of the U. S. Special Operations Command ( U. S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr .; U. S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway ; U. S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead ; Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad W. Allen ; Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz ; Commander of U. S. Special Operations Command U. S. Navy Adm. Eric T.

On May 3, 2003, a detachment of U. S. Army Special Forces led by United States Navy Commander David Beckett and eight nuclear experts from the United States Department of Defense's Direct Support Team conducted a survey of the facility, finding the looting, similar to the situation in the nearby Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center.

Weapons using the SEFOP principle have already been used in combat ; the smart submunitions in the CBU-97 cluster bomb used by the US Air Force and US Navy in the 2003 Iraq war used this principle, and the US Army is reportedly experimenting with precision-guided artillery shells under Project SADARM ( Seek And Destroy ARMor ).

He was awaiting confirmation as United States Secretary of the Navy in 2003 when he died from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in the head at his New Mexico ranch.

In 2003 Thales UK's design won the competition for the Royal Navy Future Carrier ( CVF ) and the company now participates in an alliance company with BAE Systems and the UK Ministry of Defence.

The Navy experimented with one prototype hovercraft, but announced in 2003 that the Tuuli class would not enter active operations and that no more of them would be built.

In 2003, ATSDR released public health assessments that evaluated the potential health effects of pollution left behind by the United States Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico.

Also in 2003, Manadel al-Jamadi was found dead in what was described as " Palestinian Hanging " during interrogation by the Navy Seals at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

* 2003 – In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective.

Rockstar Games, the controversial game publisher, released the snuff-themed Manhunt in 2003.

It did not take over responsibility for the London Underground until 2003, after the controversial Public-private partnership ( PPP ) contract for maintenance had been agreed.

In 2003 an operating company included over 80 investors, including some of Mayor Daley's friends and neighbors won, under controversial circumstances, a lucrative contract to operate Park Grill, the only restaurant in Millenium Park.

In response to criticisms of the Institute stating that the amendment was a federal education policy requiring inclusion of alternatives to evolution be taught, which it was not, in 2003 intelligent design's three most prominent legislators, John Boehner, Judd Gregg and Santorum provided a letter to the Discovery Institute giving it the go ahead to invoke the amendment as evidence of " Congress's rejection of the idea that students only need to learn about the dominant scientific view of controversial topics ".

There are times in which Cherry tends to be controversial ; for example, in 2003, Cherry stated that the majority of players wearing facial protection in the NHL are French-Canadians and Europeans ( though a study done by a lawyer confirmed Cherry's assertion ).

In a controversial move following the 2003 sexual assault scandal, the words " Bring me men ..." were taken down and replaced with the Academy's ( later adopted as the Air Force's ) core values: " Integrity first, service before self, and excellence in all we do.

A series of controversial interest rate swaps, initiated in 2002 and 2003 by former Commission President Larry Langford ( removed as the mayor of Birmingham after his conviction ), were intended to lower interest payments, but have, in fact, had the opposite effect, increasing the county's indebtedness to the point that officials have issued formal statements doubting the county's ability to meet its financial obligations.

They were founder members of the FA Premier League in 1992 and survived at that level until 2000, but relocated to Milton Keynes, some 70 miles away in Buckinghamshire, in a controversial move in 2003, being rebranded as Milton Keynes Dons in 2004.

In 2003 and 2004, Riverton Park United Methodist Church located in northeast Cascade View, Tukwila and The Church by the Side of the Road located in south Cascade View hosted controversial homeless camp Tent City.

At the end of 2003, Royal Brunei entered a controversial agreement with Royal Tongan Airlines of Tonga.

In January 2003, Clooney made a controversial joke about the fact that Charlton Heston was suffering from Alzheimer's, and Clooney initially refused to apologize.

In 2003, the San Diego Jewish Journal described Lerner as " the most controversial Jew in America ," writing that " He is relentlessly critical of Israel.

Less controversial, however, was the SASR's involvement in the boarding of the North Korean freighter MV Pong Su in 2003.

In 2003 a controversial amendment was made to the operational rule book of the UK, removing part of the safety and operational role of the Guard to the Driver.

In March 2003, a controversial Monument of Halabja Martyrs was built on the outskirts of the still largely ruined city.

A plan to build a Tesco Extra store on the Cloffocks proved controversial with much opposition from local people ; a planning application was placed in 2006 by Tesco, after it acquired the Cloffocks site for £ 18 million ; Tesco had been competing with Asda to acquire the site since 2003.

This was not so, however, during the 2003 election, which was the most controversial in recent memory ( see also above ).

Castroneves repeated his Indianapolis 500 win in 2002 despite controversial circumstances involving a late race caution and a pass made by Tracy, and his teammate de Ferran won in 2003.

A recent prominent example of quorum-busting occurred during the 2003 Texas redistricting, in which the majority Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives sought to carry out a controversial mid-decade congressional redistricting bill which would have favored Republicans by displacing five Democratic U. S. Representatives from Texas ( the Texas Five ) from their districts.

She won her first Emmy for portraying the woman who gently coaxes rigid militarywoman Glenn Close out of the closet in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, with subsequent nominations for her repressed Australian outback mother in The Echo of Thunder ( 1998 ), her portrayal of Lillian Hellman in Dash and Lilly ( 1999 ), her frigid society matron in A Cooler Climate ( 1999 ) and her interpretation of Nancy Reagan in the controversial biopic The Reagans ( 2003 ).

In autumn 2003, The Late Late Show had a competitor in the Friday evening time slot, with the arrival of competing television chat programme, The Dunphy Show, hosted by controversial broadcaster Eamon Dunphy on RTÉ's main rival TV3.