SInce I purchased my membership and was able to change my username, I decided to use my handle from my job.
Like many others in the forums, I am military and work in a fighter squadron. Most people in the squardron earn a callsign from some activity or event they have been involved with.
I had been away from the squadron for about a year doing some training. We had a new troop working the ops desk that, to put it politely, was not the sharpest tool in the shed. She had never met me so didn't know who I was. I was standing at the ops desk with about 10 or so pilots, including both the Wing Commander and the Vice, waiting for a flight briefing. A phone call came in for Lt Cahill ( me ) and this troop put the call on hold and asked the group if anybody knew some Lieutenant Cakehole? After the laughter stopped, I figured that she was looking for me and took the phone call.
I figured this would just pass on by and I would never hear about this again, but I was wrong.
A few days later I was in the Wing Commanders weekly briefing with all of the senior staff. This Commander would end all of his meetings by going around the room asking each person, by name, if they had any inputs or comments for him. when he got to me he asked " Cakehole, you got anything for me?" So, with the Wing Commander's blessing and use of the callsign in a formal occasion, I was named.