Howard Rollins as Captain Davenport

Adolph Caesar as Sergeant Waters

Art Evans as Private Wilkie

Robert Townsend as Corporal Ellis

Denzel Washington as Private First Class Peterson

David Alan Grier as Corporal Cobb

David Harris as Private Smalls

Dennis Lipscomb as Captain Taylor

Patti LaBelle as Big Mary

Wings Hauser as Lieutenant Byrd

Larry Riley as C.J. Memphis

William Allen Young as Private Henson

Scott Paulin as Captain Wilcox

John Hancock as Sergeant Washington

Robert Tyler as Private Seymour

Trey Wilson as Colonel Nivens

Patricia Brandkamp as Ida Nivens

Carl Dreher as Bus driver

Vaughn Reeves as Captain Estes

Michael Anthony Williams as Barracks Soldier

Bobby McGee as Barracks Soldier

Rick Ramey as Barracks Soldier