Women as Gobs

In the First World War, members of the American Army were called doughboys and members of the Navy were called gobs. But a curious thing happened by accident. The Navy began the war by setting up some elaborate standards for joining. These standards were golden but someone forgot to add that you had to be male. When this oversight was called to the attention of the Secretary of the Navy,  Josephus Daniels, he had the good sense to respond by enlisting 11,000 women. After the war, they were all mustered out, but the door had been opened for women to serve in the next World War, and nothing has been the same since.