1970. I was in college and the Vietnam war was raging. I wanted to join but the only position back then for women in the military was in the medical field. You can’t show me a needle that doesn’t make me faint. I was NOT a candidate.
I remember the era, in fact I enlisted the following year I remember many women that were not in medical, I simply enlisted with no requests for specific duty, they could put me wherever they wanted to, is that what you tried, because by 1970 the military was years past the days when they limited female enlistments to 2%.