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[meredith44]

I spent this weekend watching a lot of television. I have now finished season 2 of Lost and season 3 of NCIS (8 episodes!). I'm not going to get into how I feel about either show, as discussion on Lost has been done so completely that I'd have nothing to add, and I don't know too many of my flist that would be interested in discussing NCIS. I do

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Good question

[shazp]

This puzzled me too, and I haven't seen any discussion anywhere else either.
I was just too lazy to check whether Kelly in Honour Code did have an NIS shirt, but it crossed my mind. So what are they playing at? Shall have to ask around some message boards...

Re: Good question

[meredith44]

Sorry it took me so long to reply. RL sucked me in. So, did you get an answer in asking around the message boards? I'm sure it's just a stupid error, but it still bothers me a little.

Re: Good question

[shazp]

No, no defintive answer. Actually I seemed to open a can of worms! A lot of people think it was just TPTB making a mistake, or that Gibbs was just dreaming of what might have been, because with the Hiatus timeline he couldn't have seen Kelly in an NIS shirt unless someone else gave it to her (which was one suggestion, but a bit contrived I reckon). I am not 100% convinced it was a mistake - I can believe inconsistencies between season 1 and 3, but between Honor Code and Hiatus seems a bit odd. Maybe the continuity people were just having a bad day!
Personally I waver between just a mistake and a huge conspiracy theory (ie Gibbs was already working for NIS before Desert Storm, and he was undercover or something).
Maybe we'll find out in September...

[sammie28]

Hello! I lurk at the NCIS LJ and saw your post. I hope you do not mind me replying

[meredith44]

I so don't mind you replying, but I apologize that it took me so long to respond myself. (RL has been extremely hectic recently.)

See, I'm usually fine ignoring inconsistencies in NCIS because I don't tend to watch it as intensely as I do other shows, so I didn't really notice that much inconsistency with season 3 Gibbs as compared to seasons 1-2. (I also think the fact I didn't watch any season 3 NCIS until December or so and watched the majority of this season in a marathon just a couple of weeks ago also contributed. I am quite fuzzy on the details of the first two seasons

[autumnally]

Just dropped by from ncis_newsletter. What if they originally wrote him as a 4yr MP in the Marines, then 15 yrs at NCIS? That would support the 19 yr thing, I think. It matches the dates a little better, too. If "Gibbs" equated his MP service in the military as cop-type training, that would work, I think. I can't fit the Gunny/Sniper Gibbs in, though.

[meredith44]

I always assumed that he was first a Gunny/sniper in the millitary, but left to go to NCIS and was recalled for active duty in the Gulf War. Apparently I was wrong. *sigh* I have no idea, and it makes my head hurt!

[sammie28]

That could work, except that NCIS is a civilian agency - they have almost no military personnel at all, and no military policemen. Gibbs would not have been with NCIS as a MP; he could only join the agency after becoming a civilian again (by joining the Reserves and not being active duty).

I believe now he would say he was at NCIS 22 years (19 years was in 2003).

The sniper part - he could be a MP and a sniper in his career as a Marine. (There is enough time, since he reached the rank of a gunnery sergeant.) His question to Kate just puzzled me, since he ought to know! :-)

[meredith44]

The civillian/reserves thing (with being called up again to active duty in the Gulf War) was what I always thought, but as you say, that would mean a heck of a lot more years in NCIS than they told us. His question to Kate could have been more to see how knowledgable she was, to see if her ideas matched his, sort of as a test. (Although I so don't remember the episode/conversation, so I'm just guessing.) I suppose I should just resign myself to the fact that the question does not have an answer! (At least, not a logical one at any rate.)