An officer and a gentleman

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An officer and a gentleman is a concept and phrase widely used in and about the British armed services from at least the early nineteenth century. The phrase was codified in Article 133 of the US Uniform Code of Military Justice which allows "Conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman" to be punished by a court martial.

In popular culture

• The Evelyn Waugh novel Officers and Gentlemen
• The 1970 BBC Comedy Playhouse episode An Officer And A Gentleman
• The four track suite Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman by Emerson, Lake and Palmer
• The 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman