Do I need a legal name change?
My entire life I've gone by my last name, however, on my birth certificate it says my last name, then my mothers maiden name(I think out of our cultures tradition or something), meaning that when I enlisted my last name was recorded as my real last name, appended by my mother's maiden name. I probably didn't explain it well, so here's an example. My name is John Smith, and my mother's maiden name is Brown, so it the military now knows me as SmithBrown. Does this require a legal name change to get rid of or what do I need to do?