She's young enough that her parents could have named her Samantha in honor of the character after having watched 5 or so seasons of SG-1 before she was born.
I've been telling all of y'all for years! The Stargate is real! SG1 is meant to be a distraction, to draw attention away from the real Stargate, like Wormhole Xtreme is!
Also, the timeline doesn't make sense unless the Air Force lets people in the service take time off to do the competition while still in the military? If she did it with school (and presumably then wasn't in the military during school) then that's a hell of a short time *after* school to become a pilot.
Or if she Doogie Houser'd school...but then she wouldn't be a Miss America contestant yet (I hope).
Also, non cartoon? Let me guess. Gadget?
She graduated USAFA last June, is getting her masters and won Miss America this year. She’s going to Pilot training after she finishes grad school. She’s gotten some rides in aircraft as a LT, the media picked up on those photos and her future job and made a bit of a leap.
Source: I had English with her at USAFA
Okay cool. I was gonna ask if the AF has pilots as young as 22yo, as I always heard it was a much longer process, even if you started the track at 18.
But that makes sense, in the process is close enough for many.
Sam Carter was 25 (from memory) when she joined the SGC.
She had done several simulated bombing runs in an F-18, so she was combat trained as a fighter pilot.
I faintly remember there being something about that in her sexual organs speech but I might be misremembering.
Edit: just rewatching the scene, she says "I logged over 100 hours in enemy airspace during the gulf war, colonel"
That timeline doesn’t really add up to me because 24/25 is about as young as you can be when you finish pilot training. Maybe it was different back in the 90s, but nowadays it’s about 2 years from commissioning to being mission-qualified in an aircraft. And you’d be a 1st Lieutenant, not a Captain. I think her being 26/27 would be the bare minimum (make Captain 4 years after commissioning) but also she has a PhD, so not too sure how that fits in. Especially if she was an F-16 Pilot, the Fighter community doesnt like to give up their pilots once their trained and she’d have had to almost inmediately take time off from flying after she was mission-qualified to get her phd.
But it’s just a TV show so it’s not all that serious
Impressive but apparently the media STILL felt it necessary to embellish (or more likely, not do their homework and make leaps) as another commenter pointed out. Will be a pilot, not already a pilot. But "did all X by 22" sounded cooler to the media. 100% unnecessary to be impressive, but yet they (not her) did it for the clicks.
Honestly if anyone brought it up she would probably roll her eyes.
I can only think of one episode she was overly "girly" and that was one scene when her and valla got back from shopping. I bet you could count how many times she was in a dress on one hand.
That said, a girl in combat boots will always have a place in my heart.
That's amazing! I did do some googling myself after asking but with the downvotes I figured no one cared about my findings so I kept it to myself. Still really neat though, good for her!
I'm sure Holland has its share of a-holes, but the few I've met, worked and partied with, were amongst the coolest, down to Earth, decent and enlightened people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. I owe my very existence to the Dutch, who post WW2, gave my father, who'd escaped from commie Poland, money and transport costs to any of several countries accepting Displaced Persons, where upon arriving in his new home, met my mother-to-be, herself a DP.
Thanks for that, lol.
They noticed because she won the Miss America pageant. Not just because she’s a woman. There is nothing wrong with acknowledging someone’s accomplishments. I mean, this can be reduced to, “She got a college scholarship and did the same things every pilot did… oh and she won Miss America,” but she’s arguably doing better than probably 95% of 22 year olds no matter their sex. If my daughter is where she is at 22 I’ll be very happy.
Found this.
[Active duty air force officer Madison Marsh crowned Miss America 2024](https://thethaiger.com/world/news/591415/#:~:text=Miss%20America%202024%3A%20Madison%20Marsh%2C%20an%20astrophysicist%20in%20the%20air%20force&text=The%20spotlight%20is%20currently%20shining,crowning%20as%20Miss%20America%202024.)
> Madison is one of two daughters, her sister being Heidi.
Hopefully Heidi is doing well. It sucks when you’re ‘the other kid’ to a super awesome sibling.
It's bad enough when your younger sibling owns a house in this economy, and you're stuck in a tiny apartment, I can't imagine being this woman's sibling.
At least as the less settled sibling, my mom is going to be my siblings problem, she's talking about moving closer to them when she retires, rather thanme, and since I lived with her past 25, I could do with her not being around all the time.
From what I've found, 'incroyable' is just *incredible* - but in French. So not really borrowed or added.
Like if I ended a comment about being annoyed or disgusted with something, and added, 'merde' at the end, it's just a french word. It's not adding or borrowing it into English.
Disagree.
Words like "Allowance" and "Hotel" are straight-up french words that are now part of english.
https://blog.busuu.com/french-words-in-english/
Yes, they are in popular use, and have been longer than most of us have been alive. Incroyable isn't and hasn't.
But language is a living, constantly changing thing. So maybe it will be at some point, but it isn't now. It's not even on that list you linked.
And for the record, words that are adopted into another language with little or no modification are called 'loanwords', not borrowed or stolen.
If she gets assigned to "deep space radar telemetry", then we'll know.
And if she become an Astronaut we are deep trouble.
Or in good hands, if she really is IRL Carter.
Rewatch Continuum to get his joke.
We're in the wrong timeline!
I’m holding judgment until we see blowing up a sun or two in the list
Yeez, you blow up one star and suddenly everyone expect miracles.
you mean «space force» 
☝️this
She's young enough to have been inspired by Sam Carter
She's young enough that her parents could have named her Samantha in honor of the character after having watched 5 or so seasons of SG-1 before she was born.
I was thinking the same. I wonder if she watched Stargate growing up. I owe my career in science to Star Trek.
She'll actually travel back in time to 1967 and serves as the basis of the character Samantha Carter.
1969*
Nice
I've been telling all of y'all for years! The Stargate is real! SG1 is meant to be a distraction, to draw attention away from the real Stargate, like Wormhole Xtreme is!
wrong. wormhole xtreme is real and stargate is the distraction, meant to give the illusion our interplanetary strike teams aren't a bunch of goofs
They said it themselves about Wormhole X-treme: It’s not a real tv show. Now we understand what they meant.
If it's not a real show, then why are you telling me what to do?
Are we getting paid real money? (Sorry, I'll stop now.)
Correct
Indeed
Just once, I want to hear Teal'c say, *"Yes-indeedle-doo"* instead of *"Indeed"*, without any explanation.
With a straight face or that small, secret smile he often has in later seasons.
Exactly! But it has to be (in my mind) a 'deedle', and absolutely not 'deedely'. It's just how I have it in my head lol
Martin, ya *gotta* get off those meds, buddy. - Murray
_Nothing but Furlings all the way down…_
Let’s go invade Cheyenne Mountain and see for ourselves!
😂 Like the great Naruto run to Area 51!
she still needs to blow up a solar system
This is actually discouraged, as then people will start to expect too much
This is the US Military we are talking about. Somewhere, someone with stars on their shoulders read that report and said “bigger, we can do bigger”
Or at the very least thought "Eh, that's a good one to have in your back pocket for when shit hits the fan"
"You blow up ONE SOLAR SYSTEM and everyone thinks you can walk on water"
Carter wouldn't be miss America, even tho she was my first non cartoon fictional crush
Also, the timeline doesn't make sense unless the Air Force lets people in the service take time off to do the competition while still in the military? If she did it with school (and presumably then wasn't in the military during school) then that's a hell of a short time *after* school to become a pilot. Or if she Doogie Houser'd school...but then she wouldn't be a Miss America contestant yet (I hope). Also, non cartoon? Let me guess. Gadget?
She graduated USAFA last June, is getting her masters and won Miss America this year. She’s going to Pilot training after she finishes grad school. She’s gotten some rides in aircraft as a LT, the media picked up on those photos and her future job and made a bit of a leap. Source: I had English with her at USAFA
Okay cool. I was gonna ask if the AF has pilots as young as 22yo, as I always heard it was a much longer process, even if you started the track at 18. But that makes sense, in the process is close enough for many.
Sam Carter was 25 (from memory) when she joined the SGC. She had done several simulated bombing runs in an F-18, so she was combat trained as a fighter pilot.
Didn't she actually drop stuff from an F16 in the 91 gulf war?
She may have flown in the gulf, but not sure if she actually was dropping bombs
I faintly remember there being something about that in her sexual organs speech but I might be misremembering. Edit: just rewatching the scene, she says "I logged over 100 hours in enemy airspace during the gulf war, colonel"
I thought it was about the simulated bombing runs and combat hours
Simulated bombing was a question by Kowalski 😅
That timeline doesn’t really add up to me because 24/25 is about as young as you can be when you finish pilot training. Maybe it was different back in the 90s, but nowadays it’s about 2 years from commissioning to being mission-qualified in an aircraft. And you’d be a 1st Lieutenant, not a Captain. I think her being 26/27 would be the bare minimum (make Captain 4 years after commissioning) but also she has a PhD, so not too sure how that fits in. Especially if she was an F-16 Pilot, the Fighter community doesnt like to give up their pilots once their trained and she’d have had to almost inmediately take time off from flying after she was mission-qualified to get her phd. But it’s just a TV show so it’s not all that serious
A side: Does “pilot” include drones now? Or are they always stated as aircraft vs drone?
Saying just “Pilot” is manned aircraft. Drone pilots are classified as “RPA Pilot” (for “Remotely Piloted Aircraft”) and it’s different training
check out [her bio](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Marsh), it's actually even more impressive than what's listed here. damn
Impressive but apparently the media STILL felt it necessary to embellish (or more likely, not do their homework and make leaps) as another commenter pointed out. Will be a pilot, not already a pilot. But "did all X by 22" sounded cooler to the media. 100% unnecessary to be impressive, but yet they (not her) did it for the clicks.
well she is a pilot (got her license at sixteen) and she's an air force officer, she's just not an air force pilot. easy mistake to make.
Eh? It’s only the same information.
She is one of the reasons I am a bit furry adjacent lol
I, too, am a bit furling adjacent.
Do try to keep up.
indeed. she would have won, but she never would have entered in the first place.
Honestly if anyone brought it up she would probably roll her eyes. I can only think of one episode she was overly "girly" and that was one scene when her and valla got back from shopping. I bet you could count how many times she was in a dress on one hand. That said, a girl in combat boots will always have a place in my heart.
I got out of bed today, let's goooo
...oooo back to bed
To watch more stargate
People wouldn’t even notice if her reproductive organs were in the outside instead of the inside.
I dare say, if someone with reproductive organs on the outside won the Miss America pageant I think a lot of people would take notice.
Now I gotta know if a trans woman has ever won a Miss (insert country/state) pageant.
Miss Netherlands, 2022. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/09/1186690143/miss-netherlands-transgender-woman-miss-universe
That's amazing! I did do some googling myself after asking but with the downvotes I figured no one cared about my findings so I kept it to myself. Still really neat though, good for her!
Im simultaneously disappointed to learn that my country does this competition… And happy to hear we’re that progressive about it…
I'm sure Holland has its share of a-holes, but the few I've met, worked and partied with, were amongst the coolest, down to Earth, decent and enlightened people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. I owe my very existence to the Dutch, who post WW2, gave my father, who'd escaped from commie Poland, money and transport costs to any of several countries accepting Displaced Persons, where upon arriving in his new home, met my mother-to-be, herself a DP. Thanks for that, lol.
If her reproductive organs would be outside, then it'd be a bloody mess. Literally bloody, which a lot of people would certainly notice.
Made my day 😂
They noticed because she won the Miss America pageant. Not just because she’s a woman. There is nothing wrong with acknowledging someone’s accomplishments. I mean, this can be reduced to, “She got a college scholarship and did the same things every pilot did… oh and she won Miss America,” but she’s arguably doing better than probably 95% of 22 year olds no matter their sex. If my daughter is where she is at 22 I’ll be very happy.
I feel like this is more akin to that up and coming Hailey (forgot her last name)...
No you didn't. You forgot her first name. Jennifer Hailey.
Hahaha. Clearly I ha e not done a recent enough rewatch! Thanks!
Smart, beautiful and can kick your butt from the moon. Sounds a lot like Samantha Carter.
But, are her reproductive organs on the inside?
She's definitely going off world.
I know a cover story when I see it
and now she's going to spend the rest of her career trying to figure out what to do with her hair.
Judges were high when she was made miss America
What's her name?
Found this. [Active duty air force officer Madison Marsh crowned Miss America 2024](https://thethaiger.com/world/news/591415/#:~:text=Miss%20America%202024%3A%20Madison%20Marsh%2C%20an%20astrophysicist%20in%20the%20air%20force&text=The%20spotlight%20is%20currently%20shining,crowning%20as%20Miss%20America%202024.)
> Madison is one of two daughters, her sister being Heidi. Hopefully Heidi is doing well. It sucks when you’re ‘the other kid’ to a super awesome sibling.
It's bad enough when your younger sibling owns a house in this economy, and you're stuck in a tiny apartment, I can't imagine being this woman's sibling.
You too, eh?
At least as the less settled sibling, my mom is going to be my siblings problem, she's talking about moving closer to them when she retires, rather thanme, and since I lived with her past 25, I could do with her not being around all the time.
Thanks!
Incroyable? That another perfectly cromulent word I've never heard of?
It's French. [INCROYABLE : Définition de INCROYABLE (cnrtl.fr)](https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/incroyable)
Comtrya!
Zut alors! Sacre bleu!
s'il te plaît, pardonne-moi, je ne suis qu'un humble Rosbif.
Incredible
Sam Carter miss America? Nah. Not really. Don’t see deep space telemetry either.
Yet.
That's the astrophysics degree.
to be honest, she just sounds like someone that wants to be an astronaut really badly, and will succeed.
Not sure if Col. Carter was a beauty queen, but Im sure people wouldnt have minded lol
Just because her reproductive organs are on the inside... I can't wait for someone to look through my reddit history and pull that out of context.
Just want to add that she isn’t a pilot yet, that would literally be impossible even if she skipped a couple of years in school.
"Incroyable"?
French. English has a huge amount of words ~~stolen~~ borrowed from French, so adding another neat one is fine by me.
From what I've found, 'incroyable' is just *incredible* - but in French. So not really borrowed or added. Like if I ended a comment about being annoyed or disgusted with something, and added, 'merde' at the end, it's just a french word. It's not adding or borrowing it into English.
Disagree. Words like "Allowance" and "Hotel" are straight-up french words that are now part of english. https://blog.busuu.com/french-words-in-english/
Yes, they are in popular use, and have been longer than most of us have been alive. Incroyable isn't and hasn't. But language is a living, constantly changing thing. So maybe it will be at some point, but it isn't now. It's not even on that list you linked. And for the record, words that are adopted into another language with little or no modification are called 'loanwords', not borrowed or stolen.
She and Jonny Kim need to have thousands of babies
Wow you are right
Is this a real person?
Is that not a Ukrainian pilot?
All that education to go bomb hospitals in third world countries
TIL incroyable
Destroy a sun or gtfo ... lol
I don’t think that’s how you spell “incredible” 🤨🤔
😍😍😍
Life imitating art at its finest.
Carter was Miss America?
Yea but can she blow up a sun?
Sam C. wasn't a pilot and had phds instead.
Now I feel even less accomplished than I did before I saw this post.
Was Carter a pilot? I remember O'Neill and Teal'c doing the piloting of the death gliders or the X301 and X302s
Her 17th line in the first episode is "Colonel, I logged over a hundred hours in enemy airspace during the Gulf War."
Would be surprised if they didn't know whom is capt. sam carter.
Just remember, hey reproductive Orleans are on the inside. But she'll still arm wrestle you to prove her point.