How DID you choose your screen name? ...and your signature? ...and avatar?

[Scout]

My screen name "Scout" refers to my US Army career as a Cavalry Scout and Armored Cavalry Officer.

My avatar is the crest from my (assumed) COA and is likewise a reference to my Cavalry service and that of my ancestors. (Upon a wreath or and gules a dexter arm embowed vested azure the hand in a buckskin gauntlet grasping a cavalry saber proper)

My signature: is my name followed by "Riamh Nar Dhruid O Spairn Lann," the motto from the flag of the Civil War era 69th New York Infantry Regiment, part of the famed Irish Brigade. One of the Regiment's commanders during the war was an ancestor. It translates: "Who never retreats from the clash of spears"