Meg mentions Dean Stockwell from Quantum Leap (1989) who will later star in JAG (1995) as Secretary of the Navy Edward Sheffield.
Meg Tracey Needham mentions Dean Stockwell, who starred in Quantum Leap (1989) with Scott Bakula. Scott Bakula will later go on to star in NCIS: New Orleans (2014), one of two spin-offs of parent show NCIS (2003), which is a spin-off of this show.
Early in this episode, Lt. Austin asks if PVC Hanson was given a "Code Red". The response was "That only happens in the movies". Three years earlier in the 1992 movie A Few Good Men (1992). , "Code Red". was a critical plot point That movie also spotlights the JAG. Office.
In the military, namely the Marine Corps, the term "blanket party" is used to describe a type of unofficial punishment handed down by either a unit leader, or by other unit members unsatisfied with a fellow unit member for one reason or another. It is done by waiting for the victim to be asleep in their bunk, then the other soldiers in the unit will restrain the victim by pulling down on the bunk's blankets, thereby holding the victim down while each member of the unit then proceeds to hit the victim in the abdomen, usually one at a time. While this type of beatdown is officially considered unacceptable by the military, it is sometimes still used as a teaching method, especially in the Marine Corps. Although it is not nearly as commonplace as it used to be, if it is discovered that a "blanket party" was condoned by a unit commander it is an offense punishable by court martial.