Teenagers set off hand grenades during daylight, but immediately afterward it is night.
When Vince Johnson visits Carly in the hospital, he walks up to the left side of the bed and places the flowers on her from the right side of the bed.
At the Hail and Farewell Dance when Carly and Vince are slow dancing he puts his hand on her bottom. In the shot of Vera watching her husband do this, you can clearly see that she is standing next to Vince, obviously taken from the subsequent scene when she calls him a pig.
The major has a full serving of "scrambled eggs" which is reserved for Generals. A Major is entitled to wear only a single row of Oak Leaves on the bill of his cap.
An enlisted man walks into the Colonel's office wearing Private First Class insignia of one chevron with one rocker. This insignia was not used until 1968, well past the time period that the film was set in.
Near the end of the film, Vince Johnson (Powers Boothe) is watching an in-color news broadcast on a color television. Color television sets weren't widely in use until the mid-60's, and news broadcasts were virtually all in black-and-white until that time.
While the film deserves credit for showing the US Army using Bell H-13 Sioux helicopters in 1963, and a UH-1 Huey in high visibility, full color markings- both of which are correct for the era- one scene shows a Bell OH-58 Kiowa flying over an atomic test sight in 1963.
Nice try, but the Army didn't start using this chopper until the spring of 1969.
Nice try, but the Army didn't start using this chopper until the spring of 1969.
Toward the beginning of the film when Carly says to Hank, "C'mon, have a drink. It'll make you feel better.", her lips don't move.
Hank refers to the Bible verse on David's murder of Bathsheba's husband Uriah as "Second Samuel, verse 15;" he omits the chapter number: it's Second Samuel chapter 11, verse 15.