Trivia
This was Stanley Kubrick's first film edited by computer rather than linearly spliced film.
In the sequences inside the barracks during the drill, a special lens was designed to keep every single Recruit in focus. Kubrick intended that no one was special and they all had the same treatment.
Kubrick received his final Oscar nomination (his thirteenth career nod) for this movie.
Advertisements for this film were censored in some parts of Canada due to the tagline "In Vietnam the wind doesn't blow, it sucks." At that time, Canadian censors had not yet decided whether the phrase "it sucks" (or "this sucks") was obscene.
Kubrick arranged a shot designed to make all the Marines look like toy soldiers silhouetted on a hill, but then later decided to omit it from the film.
