The name of the small country town was ''Pinesville''.
The movie received token theatrical runs prior to its 1980s home video releases according to the book 'Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second: A Critical and Thematic Analysis of Over 400 Films About the Vietnam War' (1995) by Jeremy M. Devine.
The movie is set in two time frames. The first is Laos / Vietnam in 1972 and the second is 1984 in Pinesville and Los Angeles.
There is a real life place called ''Pinesville'' in the USA. It is situated in New York State's Delaware County.
The Laos / Vietnam war scenes were filmed in the Phillipines with the Filipino nation doubling for 'Nam.