Hank Landry

Henry "Hank" Landry is the Commanding officer of the SGC since General Jack O'Neill was made head of the Office of Homeworld Security. He is also the father of Carolyn Lam. He is fond of quoting famous people from history.

Biography

Landry was born on October 6, 1945 in Sacramento, California, USA. When he was a Captain during the war in Vietnam, he flew a UH-1 Iroquois helicopter for the 82nd Airborne Division. He transported troops and supplies during combat operations and played a part in daring rescue missions. Following the Vietnam War, Landry was promoted to Major and later took part in tough operations in Grenada, Kosovo, and the Gulf. Landry rose quickly through the ranks to become Colonel and ultimately General. (SG1: "Stargate SG-1: The DVD Collection")

Landry was apparently a pilot in the Vietnam War, and was shot down over Laos, well north of the DMZ, spending over 8 days in the jungle hunted by the North Vietnamese army. (SG1: "Uninvited")

Landry at some time had a daughter, Dr. Carolyn Lam, Stargate Command's chief medical officer.

General Landry was assigned as the commander of Stargate Command by President Henry Hayes, having been hand-picked by his predecessor Jack O'Neill to succeed him. He is a close friend of O'Neill and George Hammond. (SG1: "Avalon")

When placed in charge of the SGC, Landry was immediately faced with the threat of losing seventy percent of his budget, as the political leadership wanted to devote more resources to the Atlantis expedition and fighting the Wraith, even though the Ori were now aware of humans in the Milky Way. Landry was able to acquire more funding by allowing the IOA a civilian oversight of the SGC. During the Ori plague crisis, he was one of the last to be infected with the plague, after travelling to the Sodan homeworld. However, Gerak was able to cure him.

Later when Jasec requested asylum, Landry asked Dr. Carolyn Lam to call his ex-wife, Kim Lam to talk to him on dinner, where he nearly had to abort the promise because of Jasec's scam, but eventually he was able to live up to his promise, whether he was able to get back as family is remain unknown, although in alternate reality created by Ba'al he was with his wife, which can be hinted that same thing happened in our reality.

He was aboard and was commanding Odyssey when the Asgard committed mass suicide, but he succumbed to the old age during his time when he was stuck in the time dilation field, he was fine when the field disengaged and everything went back to normal.

When Asurans took over Atlantis Landry ordered Daedalus to deploy warhead to destroy the city in order to prevent replicators from invading the Milky Way via Midway Station.

Alternate Reality

• In one alternate reality Landry is the President of the United States of America. (SG1: "The Road Not Taken")
• In the alternate reality created by Ba'al, Landry did not divorce his wife. This version of Landry shared many similarities with the Landry in this reality, except the fact that he retired. (Stargate: Continuum)