In 1971, "Permanent Party" in the U.S. Army meant troops assigned to a Permanent Duty Station. Where they could get all the alcohol they could afford, and nobody ever checked an I.D.One woman soldier, illegally pregnant, has a miscarriage and is accused of murder. The white girls say the black girls helped her do it. The boyfriends start getting mixed up in it. And the sergeants.All the booze in the world doesn't help.