Colee talks of how T.K. and his fiancée should experiment sexually, 'by having another man with her while T.K. watches'. Later on in the film, Cheaver (accidentally) puts himself in exactly that position (having sex with a woman just as her husband enters the room).
At one point in the film, T.K. ('Michael Pena') rudely calls Colee's dead friend a gang-banger. In the film Crash (2004) Sandra Bullock's character rudely calls 'Michael Pena''s character a gang-banger.
In the scene where they visit the Hummer dealer, this is an actual dealership located in the western suburbs of St. Louis.
Local actor and retired Paralegal was a background actor at the airport. His name is Michael Sargent. Well known on-air personality on numerous radio stations and a International Roller Hockey League play-by-play analyst.
This is Tim Robbins's third time portraying a soldier. The first times were Top Gun (1986) and Jacob's Ladder (1990). In the latter film, he starred alongside Elizabeth Peña, who shares the same surname with Robbins' The Lucky Ones (2008) co-star 'Michael Pena'