Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

1942.

1942. I bet they never thought about women in uniform unless it was Navy nurses. Never imagined more than two genders, in any species of animal, and couldn't comprehend a man becoming a "woman."

“Rocks and Shoals” is an informal reference to the Articles for the Government of the United States Navy, which was replaced in 1951 by the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The nickname derives from a reference to “rocks and shoals” in Article 4, Section 10, of the document:

“The punishment of death, or such other punishment as a court martial may adjudge, may be inflicted on any person in the naval service...[who] intentionally or willfully suffers any vessel of the Navy to be stranded, or run upon rocks or shoals, or improperly hazarded or maliciously or willfully injures any vessel of the Navy, or any part of her tackle, armament, or equipment, whereby the safety the vessel is hazarded or the lives of the crew exposed to danger.”

It makes for Interesting reading.

 

And that's how the fight started....