When Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones) returns to the bombed-out embassy, there is a picture of then Vice President Al Gore on the charred wall. Gore and Jones were roommates at Harvard.
A replica of the Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, was built at the Vint Hill Farm Station, South Manassas, Virginia. Approximately eight hundred Marines were hired for the combat, and other action scenes.
H. Lawrence Hodge's house, on the oceanfront (with the circular driveway), was also used as Jack Ryan's house in Patriot Games (1992).
The U.S.S. Wake Island LHA-7 is fictional, and not an actual U.S. Navy ship. The ship seen in the movie is actually the U.S.S. Tarawa LHA-1.