Is it ever appropriate to address a fellow Service Member by last name alone?

We are in a career of being professional... And as such we need to conduct ourselves with the highest level of professional courtesy... My last 1SG would call me by my fisrt name; he was a Ranger, and I had spent some time attached to various SF groups however, I would always respond back with 1SG. One day he asked me why I don't call him Mike or Top like the othe NCO's do, and I told him this, You earned that rank, you earned the right to be called 1SG, you are not a childs play toy, and I would never disrespect you or a man in your position by calling you by your first name... If you want to call me by mine than by all means, I have not paid my dues so to say... But in this environment if we are teaching our lower enlisted that it's ok and acceptable behavior to cut up with a supiorior like that we will lose the good order, discipline and structure that we need that makes us the finest fighting orginization in the world