The Chain of Command for the Joes is explained: first comes Hawk, followed by Duke, then Flint, and finally Beach-Head.
Thrasher calls the other Dreadnoks unintelligent. The Dreadnok Buzzer is intelligent since according to his filecard he was a professor at Cambridge before becoming a Dreadnok
The first appearance of a G.I. Joe member who resembles a wrestler. Sgt. Slaughter, who performed the voice himself, was also a wrestler at WWF at the same time.
Several of the historical tombs mentioned as possible targets, historically have never been found. This includes the tombs of Sun Tzu, Genghis Khan. Alexander the Great, and Montezuma. In Montezuma's case, his body is widely believed to have been destroyed by the Spanish in order to prevent the Aztecs from building him a memorial.
The episode mentions Mainframe serving in Vietnam.