Michael E. Ryan

General Michael Ryan was the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force in February, 2001. He visited the SGC at that time because of a "ridiculous" mission on M4C-862. Jack O'Neill seems to be rather admiring of General Ryan.

Behind the scenes

 * General Ryan was the real Chief of Staff at the time this episode aired and he portrayed himself. As stated on the featurette for volume one of Season Eight, Richard Dean Anderson asked Ryan whether there were really colonels like O'Neill, to which Ryan replied, "yes, and worse."