curdog4570,
Fyi, I didn't assign my nickname to myself.- Instead my first BN commander (COL Rufus H. R______.) gets the "credit", as he said at my 1st staff meeting , "I'm going to call you "Tex", as there is way too damned many people named James, Jim & Jimmy around here. - That's OK with you, isn't it?"
I said, "Colonel, you may call me whatever you like." - The nickname "stuck".
(No brand-new "butter-bar" is going to tell a senior 0-6 "no", if he/she can avoid it. - Instead, as "the new kid", you just want to "keep your head down", "get your feet on the ground" & hope to Heaven that you don't look completely stupid/foolish to "the boss".)
In my case, I was assigned as the Detachment CDR of the kaserne's MP Detachment & was lucky enough to have "inherited" a great MSG E8 as the Detachment NCOIC. - I learned a great deal from MSG Autley.
In case you are interested, rather than just trying to be "too clever" (read: a jackass), I was born in Pittsburg, Texas & raised in Pittsburg & Daingerfield, TX & lived mostly in Morris County, until I went to boarding school in SEP, 1962.
yours, tex
