Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, who addresses almost every other main character by their last names regardless of familiarity (i.e. Pierce, Hunnicut, O'Reilly, Colonel Potter, etc.) repeatedly addresses Cpl. Klinger, who everyone else usually calls by his last name only, as Max. (Recurring character Sgt. Zale gets this treatment as well at least once, being addressed by his first name, Zelmo, while tending bar at the Officers' Club - one of very few times his name is ever uttered). This use of given names by Winchester has more to do with a patronizing lack of respect for one's "inferiors" than with familiarity or benevolence (as Charles is likely the kind of man who would regard enlisted men as lower-class, like a housekeeper or doorman, beneath his elite level of breeding and not worthy of his respect). He also routinely calls Maj. Houlihan by her first name, Margaret, which likely is more about familiarity with a member of the opposite sex, as he shows an early respectful attraction to her - though in surgery he regularly alludes to his belief that he is superior to her as well, since he's a surgeon and she is "merely" a nurse.
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