Kokanee
I highly doubt that our CO would wrap your knuckles for trying to get a self help. By all means, he may be the avenue to indeed get you a self help unit. When I first arrived in Ottawa, they said that they did'nt have any self helps left for the single hands so they ended up putting 3 to a PMQ for almost $1000 a month. Oddly enough, when we broached the subject with the SWO several months later, all of a sudden, three self help units magically appeared.
The CoC will help you just as long as you don't pee in anyone's cornflakes beforehand.