The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series.
Eric Bruskotter and Bruce Gray were in both this episode and Starship Troopers. As with this episode they also shared no on screen time in the movie.
Opening blurb: "I am absolutely certain that, whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is losing. The enemy's hopes are bankrupt." General William C. Westmoreland November 21, 1967