[FRMAG]

Techinically a Staff Sergeant is an officer without a commmission. Staff Sergeant is a rank within the Non Commissioned Officer Corps. I realise this is splitting hairs but technically a Staff Sergeant is an officer sans commission.

Amongst NCOs the phrase was "It didn't take an act of congress to make me gentleman>"

[r9etb]

but technically a Staff Sergeant is an officer sans commission

And in this case, sans a few other items, too.