Talk:Jack O'Neill

message: Not only has Jack received the Purple Heart, he has also received the Medal of Honor (Secrets), possibly more than once. Prior to the change in 2 August 2006, Air Force officers were allowed to wear some, all, or none of their ribbons, meaning Jack could have chosen not to wear the ribbons for those particular awards. After the change, the regulations say he should have worn all or none of his ribbons, and would have been required to wear all of them on his service coat (blue sports jacket) (see Air Force Instruction AFI 36-2903 for proper wear of the Air Force uniform).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sonnydays15 (talk • contribs) 21:46, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I put the existing ribbons into a nicer table and referenced all of them. I also removed references to the Medal of Honor, as I agree with the anonymous commenter above. According to my recollections, neither one of them was awarded the CMOH. -- Dunee (talk) 16:49, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ribbons/Awards 

message: what's the deal with Jack O'Neill saying "for crying out loud" all the time? I've just started the series and am about 15 episodes in. he says it almost every episode. just wondering if anyone knows if it's some inside joke or something? SnaX (talk) 21:18, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, It's an inside joke like teal'c saying "indeed" all the time. and Please add new discussion to the bottom of the talk page. Peachey88 (Talk Page | Contribs) 08:21, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: For Crying Out Loud

message: Wasn't it a completely different character? I don't see why this is in there. The 1337 (talk) 16:15, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved to bottom of page It's clearly intended to be the same character. The first episode of SG-1 makes it perfectly clear, and plenty of references in the rest of the series do too. They decided to change the name slightly, that's all. --Tango (talk) 16:31, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: But his personality is different in the movie also. The 1337 (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 00:36, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: He'd just suffered the death of his son, that's going to make anyone more serious, isn't it? --Tango (talk) 18:39, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Richard Dean Anderson agreed to take the part of Jack O'Neill on the condition that he was allowed to be more humorous than Russell had been. That is where the joke of Anderson saying "two 'L's, there's another colonel O'Neil with no sense of humour" comes from.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.0.225.100 (talk) 20:17, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know about that, but it certainly is in line with dealing with Jack's "emotional dysfunction" very early on in the series to give RDA the freedom to make him a more comical character after that.  These changes are briefly referenced in season 7's "Fallen" when Daniel is slowly regaining his memory.Thinkbui (talk) 22:19, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Events of the 1994 film 

message: i dont know about you but the episode small victories the O'neill was NOT destroyed by the replicators.  it was destroyed by the self destruct while it was in hyper space in order to destroy three replicator controled ships.  the plan was thought up by major carter.Hawkey131 (talk) 15:23, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: True, it was sacrificed to destroy the replicators rather than actually being destroyed by the replicators. --Tango (talk) 18:38, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  article error... 

message: Here is something that's bothered me for a while, what exactly did Jack do in the Air Force before joining the SGC?  We know he was in special operations, so that leaves Combat Controller, PJ, TACCOM, and combat weatherman.  Assuming we can eliminate PJ and weatherman, that leaves Combat controller, and TACCOM, and judging by the episode where we saw his unit in action in Germany, that would seem to verify this train of logic.  But this still leaves the question of why he seems to be the one who ends up flying all the exciting, experimental, multimillion dollar aircraft  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.116.103.217 (talk) 06:15, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, it bothers me too. They seem to use pilots as ground forces a lot, which seems very strange to me (it's not just Jack, Carter is a pilot, Sheppard is, Lorne has been seen to fly F-302's, Mitchell is a pilot). I'm not sure why the Air Force runs the SGC in the first place, the work they're doing should mainly be done by the Army or Marines. I'm not very familiar with the US armed forces, but if the USAF is anything like the RAF, their ground troops should be pretty much restricted to defending air fields. --Tango (talk) 15:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The USAF has their own forward ground forces that basically do what the SGC airmen do.  It isn't anywhere to the scale of that of the Army or Marine Corps, but they have them since the branches of the US military can't always engage in joint ventures with each other.  If this weren't the case, the USAF Entertainment Dept wouldn't be signing off on all the shows' scripts since their goal is to make the USAF portrayed as realistically has possible.Thinkbui (talk) 00:27, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

text: And Cheyenne Mountain was operated by the USAF in real life. --TheSandDoctor Talk 18:41, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jack's job in the Air Force 

message: I watched episodes here and there in the past. Decided to watch them from the start in order. s01e06: apparently he's irish. Someone should stick that in somewhere. came across it around 15:00  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.42.212.154 (talk) 21:28, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  new information 

message: “Well, there’s that.” - O’Neill’s go-to saying in seasons 5 and further. So much so that it seems to become his signature reaction in situations uncomfortable to him.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.32.72.171 (talk) 03:23, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

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thread_title: Broken Citation Archive