Talk:Eric Slover

Enlistment Year

As of now, it says he enlisted in 2005. However, his service stripes are indicative of 30 years, making it around 1995/1996. Birth year possibly around 1977, if he enlisted at 18

Thoughts? Navarchy (talk) 13:35, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Warrant officers do not wear service stripes. He has ten Overseas Service Bars indicating five years in combat zones. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 13:49, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

His service stripes are on his arm, it's a military uniform requirement. Navarchy (talk) 14:31, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

As I stated, Warrant Officers (per AR 670-1 21–28 Enlisted personnel are authorized to wear service stripes as members of the RA, ARNG, and USAR ... for each 3 years of honorable active Federal service) do not wear service stripes. What is on his arm are Overseas Service Bars. It is also unclear why the military would lie to AP about his enlistment date. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 14:51, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

very well Navarchy (talk) 18:03, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

DSC

Why is his DSC not listed. It is clearly shown in the picture. Was the DSC upgraded to MOH? Karagory (talk) 04:19, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Inclusion of information about holy water

~2025-39593-96 and ~2026-13198-51 (possibly the same person, based on their edit summaries) have repeatedly removed the statement that His wife, Amy, blessed his dog tags with holy water before the mission as "propaganda". This has been reported on in several reliable, albeit religious, sources: . I find its inclusion to give important context about the Slover's possible religiosity, especially important as there isn't much information about him out there at all. I find the repeated accusation of propaganda ridiculous and unfounded.

If I am not seeing this with clear eyes, let's establish consensus about its inclusion. But we're currently at D in WP:BRD, and it should not be removed without clear consensus for as much. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 12:35, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:11, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

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CW5 Eric Slover receiving the Medal of Honor

• ... that Eric Slover's (pictured) wife blessed his dog tags with holy water before Operation Absolute Resolve?
  • ALT1: ... that when Eric Slover (pictured) received the Medal of Honor, it was the first time the award had been given at a State of the Union address?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1987 Mississippi Amendment 3, Template:Did you know nominations/Castelluccio di Norcia
  • Comment: 8th day since being moved from draftspace; hoping for some grace as I was on vacation and also hoping we'd get a few more articles with more information about him before nomming.

Moved to mainspace by Darth Stabro (talk) and Pbritti (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 61 past nominations.

~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 12:51, 5 March 2026 (UTC).

• Article created 25 February, one day late so no issue. No issues of copyvio or plagiarism. All sources appear reliable. Hooks are interesting and sourced. Image looks good. QPQs are done. Looks ready to go. Thriley (talk) 05:56, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Full name

His full name is Eric A. Slover, per the MoH citation. Why isn't this part of his name in the lede? Roast (talk) 21:07, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

@Guerreroast: at the time of the article's creation, the MOH citation had yet to be published. I don't see any reason why it couldn't be added now, go for it. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 03:07, 15 March 2026 (UTC)