The Enfield Marine units — "though Gately had a pretty good…"
though Gately had a pretty good idea who the perps were he didn’t have the heart to really press and kick ass over something so much like what he’d done himself, when new and cynical, and so the whole thing pretty much blew over.
Context
The HELP WANTED prank, investigated by the man who once hung CLOSED BY ORDER on a methadone clinic: Gately's memory of his own residency self converts directly into mercy. Honestly borderline — memory used rather than thematized — filed as texture.