In the seven years of the Stargate program's offworld operations, a basic yet highly successful SOP has been developed. Small units of four-to-eight personnel - usually officers, but including some NCO and civilian specialists - embark on missions through the Stargate. These teams include exploratory and expeditionary units, dedicated combat teams, medical personnel, diplomats and engineers, all well equipped for their role. SG-7 were originally designated a general contact unit, but in 2004 were reassigned to a specialist mission: To seek out and analyse evidence of pre-Ancient cultures; identify and neutralise any possible threat to Earth posed by the remnants of said cultures.
These are the standing orders governing the SOP for Elder Threat assessments. There are four alert levels defined by the protocols.
The Behemoth Register is a list of personnel cleared for full access to Behemoth material and considered qualified to deal with a Behemoth alert in some capacity.
Alpha Site (The Village)
Beta Site (Test Bed)
If the Alpha Site is almost a second SGC, then the Beta Site - codenamed Test Bed - is an offworld version of Area-51. It is a sprawling complex, used for the examining of offworld technology and certain R&D projects.
Gamma Site (The Lake)
The Gamma Site is a large research facility located on Shayara, a world which the Goa'uld fear to approach due to its bloody part in their history. The Shay are remembered as the God-Hunters for their vicious crusade against the Goa'uld, and the memory of them still causes nightmares among the System Lords. In addition, it is beginning to become apparent that the Shay also encountered the Elder Threat during their days as explorers.
Unlike other offworld facilities, the Gamma Site is home to several dozen members of the International Extraterrestrial Research and Evaluation Group, working on various space flight, power generation and technological assessment programmes.
Delta Site (The Animal House)
Secreted in a deep cave system on P4R-194, the SGC Delta Site is usually unmanned and all-but undetectable. It's role is as a biohazard containment facility for the study of potentially dangerous artefacts and the quarantine of teams who may have been exposed to alien pathogens. The site has no full time staff, with researchers and medics being assigned as needed for particular projects and crises.