Rant begin...
Written by someone who didn't have a clue about the 1970s. Guess what, there were female doctors. There were sexists, douchebags, gentlemen, ladies, feminists, hyppies, Democrats and Republicans; TV shows like Shaft, Sanford & Son, Six Million Dollar Man, The Jeffersons and Mod Squad and everyone was banging everyone else as well, but they weren't brain dead like this MC. Sure, they liked disco, bell bottoms, body hair and disaster movies with Charlton Heston and Roy Scheider in them, sci-fi and horror, but they weren't idiots. The military had men that were taught to kill the enemy and protect the innocent and weak.
I'd go back to your history teacher and slap them in the face.
I'm facepalming a paragraph into the first mech experience. A guy that decorated is not a moron, nor will he be insubordinate to authority.
Rant over.... as you were.