She had tried to join the RAF in her youth but was refused on the basis she was a woman.
This demonstrates a lack of simple research being done, which would have saved a few people a bit of wasted time, not least herself.
In fact, nothing rings true about this, as the RAF would never have wasted time on any possible recruitment of a woman for a position which was closed to females. Or is this another sign of someone who thinks they can talk others round, to manipulate things to go exactly their way?
"Although I would have been perfect for the military, I was a bit of a maverick... maybe I wouldn't have been best suited to a strict and disciplined life."
Oh what contradiction! Oh, the mental torture of the dilemmas she must have wrestled with! Or does it just sound like sour grapes combined with a rather inflated self-opinion?