Lt. Robert James character was based of real-life Navy SEAL Stephen Cingel.
Chief Master Sergeant B.J. Wheeler was a consultant during the filming of the movie.
Epilogue: "On September 9, 2004 a Mushroom Cloud was spotted over the skies of North Korea."
Prologue: "Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked...and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.--Omar N. Bradley, General of the US Army (1893 - 1981)