how long has Jack been in the Air Force?

[lolmac]

I sure hope people are still watching this comm!

Simple question: when, or at what age, did Jack join the Air Force? Any insight or clues?

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deeply obsessive canon FTW

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There's a site with just such a 'takedown', which I've been poring over (over which I have been poring?) -- if we're being snarky, the site looks like it was built on 1998 code, but There Be Data Thar. It also has a page for Janet.

http://personal.geah.org/stargate/jacob.html

It includes this marvelous footnote: "This is based on the medals we saw General Carter wearing in the episode 'Secrets' (209). It doesn't appear to match the medals being worn in Sam Carter's 'dream' in 'The Devil You Know' (313). However, it would appear that the general is also wearing the wrong style uniform for the period in this episode."

Based on this, I'm entirely discounting the uniform in the flashback/evul vision, and not placing too much reliance on the vision itself.

I figured I could make a good case for Jacob having flown too many desks, but I'd be happier with more thoughts than just mine on the subject.

Re: deeply obsessive canon FTW

[ivorygates]

1. Combat pilot my ass.

2. If they can definitely nail when Sam's "dream" takes place, I will give them a cookie, since she's saddled with two different birth-months [August, and - I believe - May] and never assigned a birth year...

2a. Given how scrambled Jack's dream/vision was [and Daniel's!] we can forgive Sam for getting a number of the details wrong while she's blasted on wirro....

3. Totally a paper-pusher IN HIS SOUL.

Still, useful site yay! Thanks for pointing it out...