The actors had no trailers, make-up artists, hairstylists, chairs or any of the typical luxuries.
Tigerland was filmed with 16mm film to give it a gritty, documentry like feel.
The movie's widest theatrical release was only five theaters.
The paperback book Bozz is reading at the beginning of the film is Dalton Trumbo's famous anti-war novel "Johnny Got His Gun" about a horribly wounded veteran of the First World War.
Even though this movie clearly establishes early on that it takes place at the real Ft. Polk, Louisiana, USA (including displaying a big, on-screen, entrance sign at the very beginning), all the sources of film data describing this movie state that it takes place at 'fictional' Ft. Lake, Louisiana, USA.