Tim Holt playing Capt. Wilson, the senior class officer & mentor to the plebes, was actually a cadet at Culver Military Academy in high school. Hal Roach Jr. was his roommate.
In this depression-era story, John Hamilton portrays a character named Major White, which arguably could be the same character of Perry White he would later become most famous for over the full series run of Adventures of Superman (1952). The star of this film, Jackie Cooper, would decades later take over that role for all four Christopher Reeve "Superman" movies. Cooper and Hamilton would also be castmates in one other film three years after this one, Syncopation (1942).