Help?

[brainofck]

So the point arises that Jack would have gone to college. He would have to have a degree to be an officer and would have had to be an officer before he could become a pilot. So he either went to school before he enlisted, which could be anywhere. Or went to the Academy. Anybody know if canon says anything about this? Wikipedia and Gateworld were unhelpful.

I'm thinking somewhere else. Pretty hard to get into the Academy.

Heh. Maybe he was a Golden Gopher. *snickers*

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What, Jack go to school?

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Hey! I KNOW you don't buy into dumb!Jack. Don't think canon deals with it at all, but I've seen more than one fic plausibly describe him as having an aeronautical engineering degree.

Or yeah, maybe MN -- hometown boy and all that. They do have a hockey team. ;-)

Also suspect he's done language courses since with the Air Force in Monterey. We know for sure that he's been in Germany, Iraq and probably Central America. Frankly, his (or RDA's) Spanish accent is better than Daniel's (or MS's).

Re: What, Jack go to school?

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

Of course I don't buy into dumb!Jack! :) The Academy is freakin' hard to crack, though, and while I don't think Jack is dumb, I also don't imagine he was the kind of elite student to crack Academy admissions. On the other hand, he did pass the pilot's exam, which is also freakin' hard to do...

Aeronautical Engineering is of course an obvious choice for someone planning to take the pilot's exam. That would limit where he could have gone to school pretty severely.

Still, the idea of Jack as a Golden Gopher has huge appeal. :)

Re: What, Jack go to school?

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Er, I'm picturing you picturing Jack as working as the GG mascot while at school. Which leads me to furry kink, which leads me to screaming my head off. ;-)

Re: What, Jack go to school?

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

Regarding languages, I'm going for Spanish only, with a smattering of German and whatever they speak in Iraq, just from exposure. After all, though he was black ops, he wouldn't have been a "spy." He would have been a guy with a military assignment, and if he needed the local lingo, he probably would have had a local contact to help him out.

Re: What, Jack go to school?

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I pretty much figure he did a quickie phrasebook/travelers German study. Maybe a bit more in the Arabic, though not necessarily fluent. As a black ops agent, he may have been expected to have to deal on his own if the shit went down -- which it did. I'm sure he's quite fluent in prison slang as well. :-(