Talk:Operation Earnest Will

message: There is already an Operation Prime Chance article. So, why is an event that occurred as part of that Operation included in this one?
--Born2flie 06:44, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Operation Prime Chance]] 

message: On 14 April 1988, the American frigate USS Copeland, while on patrol, encountered trouble with its primary missile launcher. The Samuel B. Roberts, assuming Copeland's patrol area, struck an Iranian mine and was badly damaged.
Hesames (talk) 23:24, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What exactly this mean? 

message: FYI, a list of sources on this subject can be found here:  . Cla68 (talk) 03:53, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of sources 

message: This and the next four articles are 90% U.S. sided, with NO Iranian sources, we should expand these articles and consider the possiblities with valid sources, thanks.--Ariobarza (talk) 04:55, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: More information is always welcome. The problem has always been with finding valid sources. PRRfan (talk) 16:06, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Operation U.S.

message: To attempt to make a list here would be pointless, I have removed the largely uncited list which follows: --Dual Freq (talk) 00:24, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The list has been replaced with the text: In the following 14 months, many U.S. warships took up escort duties, at one point over 30 warships were in the region supporting the operation. cited by . I think it is more than adequate. This is not a list article. --Dual Freq (talk) 01:25, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ship list 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Well, this is interesting. The National Archives has a page saying that veterans' preference is to be given people who served in the operation from "July 24, 1987, to August 1, 1990". This ending date is much later than the operation's actual ending date: 26 September 1988 (per the Navy history command and many other sources). The very next item in the Archives page has a similarly distended time span for an operation ("Persian Gulf Operation (Operation Southern Watch) December 1, 1995, to present"). So I don't know why this date is given on the vets' preference page, but I don't think it's a reason to change the date in the article. I'm going to revert the anon's good-faith edit. PRRfan (talk) 16:00, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  How long did Earnest Will last?