The Short-Timers wasn’t written by Joker, but by U.S. Marine Corps veteran Gustav Hasford. It was adapted into the movie Full Metal Jacket by Hasford, Michael Herr, and Stanley Kubrick . It is a semi-autobiographical novel about his time in the USMC and Vietnam. It is quite good. It differs a bit from the movie as the three parts of the book are condensed into two parts for the movie.
