The ship going under the bridge in the climactic scene is the USS CARR (FFG 52), then stationed at Charleston Naval Base.
Dennis Hopper's wife, Victoria Duffy, played the Navy office worker who gets the flowers at the beginning.
The interior shots of the "navy offices and warehouse" were shot at the Square D Production Facility in Columbia, South Carolina. They also used employees of the plant as extras.
The film cast includes six Oscar nominees: Seymour Cassel, Dennis Hopper, Frederic Forrest, Dean Stockwell, Gary Busey and Tom Berenger.