Although Sunday was a planned day of downtime for most people, the command staff used Sunday afternoons and evenings for meetings. Today's meeting was especially important as she would officially be receiving her new orders, even if she knew part of those orders, she was curious as to what else was in store for her.

A typical command staff meeting involved every officer of the rank of Colonel along with one or two of the Generals, along with a few civilian heads such as Dr. Lam or Daniel in attendance. Today's meeting was no different except every General was present along with the President. When the last chair was filled, General Hammond called the meeting to order and began explaining the modified command structure that had been developed by the Generals in the past week. He answered a few questions that popped up and dealt with a few other issues that these meetings always seemed to bring out. After that, he began issuing orders to the Colonels who fell into certain areas of the command structure.

Once he had given orders to those men, (Sam had been quick to notice that she was the only female military officer in the room, in fact she was the highest ranking female officer on base), he dismissed them from the room, informing them that their specific General would have further orders prepared for them when they reported the following morning.

When he reached the end and had dismissed all but a few of the Colonels, all of whom would report to either General Landry or General O'Neill, he dismissed the civilians from the room, explaining that they had no need to stay for the remainder of the meeting, and along with them went the President and all of the Generals but Landry, O'Neill and Hammond.

Hammond then turned to the 15 Colonels left in the room and told them all, "those of you who are left are obviously either reporting to General O'Neill or General Landry. Five of you have already been informed by either General Landry or General O'Neill that you will be receiving command of an SG team."

This led to them all taking quick looks around the room, as if trying to determine who those five people were, but no one's face seemed to give anything away. "As per your orders, you have not informed anyone of who you are and you will continue to not tell anyone. Tomorrow all 15 of you will report at 0900 hours for training with General O'Neill and the other new recruits, totaling a batch of 50 people."

"At the same time, General O'Neill will lay out the plans to all of you for the future structure of the SG teams. Tomorrow's training will involve military personnel who, for the most part, have never been on an SG team. After General O'Neill manages to wash out as many as he can, the remaining people will be joined in training by the civilians and those military personnel who have 'gate experience."

"The training timeline has tentatively been planned to take two months and include several trips off world. There is no way that everyone who wants to be on a team can possibly be accommodated, but at the same time, there will be plenty of opportunities for all of you to travel off world even if you fail to receive a permanent position on a team. Any questions for General O'Neill?"

The silence that followed answered this question, so General O'Neill stood up and stated, "Good then, I'll see you all tomorrow morning at 0900 on the training field. Dismissed."

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Monday morning came, and Sam and Jack awoke to someone knocking on the door of their quarters.

Jack swung the door open, asking "What?" to see Walter standing there.

"General is Colonel Carter here? Something is wrong with the gate and her expertise is needed immediately."

Sam had already begun pulling her clothes and boots on when someone had knocked on the door. After all, very few people would be brave enough to knock on the door of a General and a Lt. Colonel this early in the morning, as a glance at her watch showed it to 0523, a little more than 30 minutes before the two of them usually woke up.

"I'm coming Walter," she called, as she headed for the door, being well practiced in waking up and dressing in a hurry, especially after her time at the SGC. Not for the first time, Sam wished that she hadn't suggested they use a dialing computer rather than the DHD on the Beta site, although she had to admit that it did increase the security on the base as not just anyone could dial up a planet. In fact, she recalled the iris was scheduled to be installed today, having been removed the previous week from the original SGC Stargate that had arrived with the Daedalus.

Several hours and cups of coffee later, she glanced at her watch and told Siler, "I think you can take it from here, I'd due to report in for recruit training in 20. If you need me, send someone to get me".

Siler nodded and thanked her for her help, as she jogged off, heading for the new training field. She arrived in plenty of time, and noted all the personnel gathered there, and the distinctive lack of female personnel.

'Of course' she reminded herself, 'this is essentially a pure military group, most women don't go into the military to just be soldiers'.

She noticed that many of the recruits, mostly the lower ranked officers were looking at her, but even a few of the Majors, and a couple of the Colonels who she didn't recognize were starring at her. She could almost hear their whispers asking what she was doing here. It wasn't new to her, but it would only get worse, she reminded herself once they found out that she knew the General.

Dismissing those thoughts from her mind, she walked over to where Cam was standing with a young man that she didn't recognize, although noticed that he seemed rather familiar.

When she got closer, she realized just who he was, he stood at attention at offered her a half-hearted, sloppy salute, something that the original had been known for, and said "Colonel Carter, it will be a pleasure to work with you again" and offered her the trademark cheeky O'Neill grin.

She returned the salute replied, "Yes it will, Jonathan", and also giving him a smile.

Turning to Cam, she questioned, "So any word about what's going on here yet?"

"Nope, we're just waiting for the General to arrive. The consensus is that we're in for an interesting adventure though".

The young man standing with them chuckled and said, "If I know myself, then interesting won't even begin to describe it. By the way guys, I'd appreciate it if you kept my relationship with the General under wraps, it's considered 'need to know' and…"

"None of these guys need to know" finished Cam, nodding his assurance that he would remain silent.

At that time though, Colonel Dave Dixon noticed the approach of two individuals, one of which looked like the General, and as the senior most officer, called out "Attention" and the group scrambled to form up ranks as the men approached.

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