The Site Admin at the online BBoard ‘A Galaxy Of Stars’ posted this news for Gary Jones fans on his official message board on 3rd March:
“Walter Harriman gets a promotion to CHIEF MASTER SERGEANT WALTER HARRIMAN!!!!
I hope you will all agree that this is great news, and may be it will mean we see more of Jonesy on-screen!!!!
Jonesy explained that he meets the new character played by Ben Browder in the gateroom and introduces himself as Chief Master Sergeant!”
And then on March 7th, Gary Jones himself confirmed the news:
“walterites:
yes, yes, yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it’s true. i’m promoted. i’m now a CHIEF MASTER SERGEANT and i still have a name to attach to that: WALTER HARRIMAN.
i’m now in the scripts under: SGT. HARRIMAN, instead of what it used to say: TECHNICIAN.
it’s just great. and i have to tell you all that i’ve been working with ben browder and beau bridges and they’re AWESOME! i watched beau do a bunch of takes and i couldn’t take my eyes off the monitor. the guy is the smoothest. holy moley!
then get this, between takes, he sits down with me and goes, “so, gary, how do you see this relationship between the general and walter developing?” i was stunned. no-one has ever done that.
i think that fans are going to be very happy about the way things willdevelop at SGC. in fact, i’ve hardly sat at my computer these last couple of days. i’ve been up in the briefing room and doing all sorts of other stuff.
it’s going to be a great season, starting with MY PROMOTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cheers everyone,
jonesy”