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Thanks for catching my goof on years... I was really brain dead when I wrote my last post and have to get better at proof reading.
As for Sam taking command in 'Spirits', that was a 'one of'. As professional military myself [okay- retired] and having trained for the NCO command ranks, she still doesn't have the depth of background. She's a 'science techie'. She'd need a couple of years, at least, of a command slot - probably a small unit or small base command and a 'lot' of field time. It's sad to say, but as a woman, she may become a unit commander, but probably of a science team, not first contact.
She just doesn't have the depth of background folks like O'Neill, Ferretti, Makepeace, etc have from being in constant combat assignments during the years before the SGC. It's not the sort of experience the military puts women in position to get.
Heck... I had to argue for 6 years to be allowed to put in for jump school and when they finally did open the program to women, my unit wouldn't release me because I had 'too much rank' and was considered mission essential - they didn't want to have me gone that long or risk me getting broken.
I think they just didn't want to have a female NCO with jump wings. :{