With The Enlisted Men’s Club, published in 2014, Running Meter launched Reilly?s Vietnam trilogy, which introduces the self-absorbed Private Palmer, formerly a slacker civilian who works hard to become a slacker MP at the Presidio as he awaits his orders for Vietnam. Palmer is a practiced, lonely drinker clearly on his way to alcoholism, and he frequently announces that he cares only for his own survival.
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