Common educational path's for CSI's include a degree in criminal justice or a specific degree in crime scene investigation. If you are already working and do not have the time to go to classes, there are CSI degree programs that you can earn online. Degree & Education Requirements for Crime Scene Investigators.
A Soldier's Story was shot entirely in Arkansas. The Tynin exterior scenes were shot in three days in Clarendon. The baseball sequence was filmed in Little Rock at the historic Lamar Porter Field. Bill Clinton (then Governor of Arkansas) dropped by during the shooting.
A former West Yorkshire police station was used for some scenes, and additional filming took place at North Light Film Studios at Brookes Mill, Huddersfield. The name Happy Valley is what local police in the Calder Valley call the area because of its drug problem. In the series one premiere episode, Ryan points out to Catherine, who is visiting her daughter Becky's grave in the next row, that visitors have left pens at Sylvia Plath Hughes' grave.