Kingsborough Community College, which serves as a stand-in for a United States Coast Guard base, was at one time an actual Coast Guard facility with an adjoining Merchant Marine Training Center, in the early half of the twentieth century.
This is one of multiple appearances of Terry Serpico, playing a different character in each episode. He first appears in Season 1 episode 20 and also appears in Season 4's "Rotten" and in Season 6's "Quarry".
Diane Neal, who played ADA Casey Novak from 2003-2012, has also played a federal agent with the Coast Guard Investigative Service on both NCIS (2003) and NCIS: New Orleans (2014).
This episode has two former "Sopranos" stars, Aida Turturro (Judge Felicia Catano) and Will Janowitz (Officer Scott Graver). The two previously worked together on "The Sopranos" portraying Janice Soprano and Finn DeTrolio.
Terry Serpico is a Coast Guard Lieutenant in this episode but also plays Army Major Frank Sherwood on "Army Wives".