Half of the production budget was raised using Kickstarter.
Background soldier characters were all wearing name tags with the film's associate producers' and co-producers' last names.
Actor Issa Khan who plays the Iraqi translator at the gate to the U.S. Army Base didn't speak a word of Arabic. His lines were fed to him from off-camera by co-producer and Iraq advisor Hiba al-Fatle.
Based in part on the real-life experiences of co-producers Alexander J. Snyder and Hiba al-Fatle.
All the 'Iraq' scenes were filmed on an empty lot in Tempe, Arizona, and the Iraqi town was added later through CGI.
Paul DeNigris: [O'Neill] A die-hard fan of Stargate SG-1, several of DeNigris' recent films have included a character named after Richard Dean Anderson's character on that show.
Paul DeNigris: [Shepherd] A die-hard fan of Stargate Atlantis, several of DeNigris' recent films have included a character named after Joe Flanigan's character on that show.