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.
I have great admiration for the wives. It's the last untold story, about how they maintain relationships and how they are single mothers much of the time. That story is why I created the series.. The cast and crew have visited the army installations at Fort Bragg and Fort Belvoir and talked to army wives.