Addendum to Canon vs. Fanon, part 14: How old is Sam, really?

[fignewton]

There was considerable discussion in the comments section of the Sam Carter edition regarding Sam's actual age. If you're interested in reading the details that lead to the final conclusion (the screencap from Entity doesn't work, but Sam is still younger than Daniel), this link will take you directly to the new analysis.

And thanks, Codger. :)

Comments

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

I'm butting in here late since I'm just now getting around to reading all of the comments. My cousin completed her Air Force flight school relatively recently so I have some info as to how it was in 2001/2002. The Air Force trained all of its pilots in both fighters AND bombers during flight school. After flight school, the pilots are assigned into either bomber pilot or fighter pilot tracks. Once in a track, a pilot may change aircraft but not type of plane. The only exception is for the pilots of the Stealth Bomber who, owing to the weirdness of required hours in the air and limits on how many Stealth flights they can make, have to have a second plane type and *they* get to fly both fighters and the Bomber. :)

So, it's possible that Sam was tracked into bombers but she would have been trained to do both. Assuming they hadn't changed it up in the time between when Sam would have been there and the time my cousin was.