 She became a fighter pilot shortly after the Combat Exclusion Policy was repealed in 1993, and her self-published book, "Hornet's Nest", recounts her experience with discrimination and hostility as one of the first women in the fighter community.Her first callsign was "Medusa"  and her second was "Shrew".In an interview on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" she described her callsign as "Awesome - I am so Kate from "The Taming of the Shrew"".