Stripes only had Mark Hamil featured in it.
 He attempted to avoid typecasting by appearing in the 1978 film Corvette Summer and the better-known 1980 World War II film The Big Red One
 The last two deleted scenes notably have John Winger being told that the platoon members dislike him (directly by Hulka, and indirectly by Russell when he tells John that the platoon hates his guts) which is in contrast to the positive reactions to Winger in the final act of the theatrically-released film

