Yours is strange to me too. Parts of it anyway. The General was part of the New Republic but Senate wouldn't listen to her warning about the First Order, so she ended up forming the Resistance. I was with the New Republic to begin with but she recruited me personally. And my mother was assigned missions with both the General and yourself.
Obi-Wan explained things to me initially when I first arrived. If he says this Doctor may know then he's probably right.