"I don't make the personnel decisions," TJ tells Ianto with an apologetic look. "I just go where I'm told."

It's an evasion and also an answer; she'd been stationed in New Mexico and then in Colorado, but it was her aptitude and desire to go further in her career that had led to the SGC and then some extremely questionable personal decisions. Nearly tanking her career had been a close call and the resulting fallout had left her desperate to be back on Earth. Unfortunately, circumstances had left her elsewhere. Far away elsewhere.