Weapons
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troopamg — 19 years ago(March 18, 2007 10:37 AM)
As the tank drive in the movie, I had the biggest gun. As a point of interest one of those cadets in the portrayal as red berets actually went on to command a cavalry troop and later acted as an operations officer in a armored cavalry task force in Bosnia. The tank commander who fires on the window is now deceased but can be seen in Ghostbusters and Muppets take Manhatten although for only a moment. The weapons were supplied by the former 2nd Battalion 111th Infantry of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard now deactivated in the early ninties.
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ltomby — 18 years ago(March 31, 2008 04:42 PM)
A guard armory isnt that big usualy,although that was a neat scene it looked almost like a big hangar on a big base somwhere.An actual armory is usualy a vault like affair with racks of m16's and mg's locked in with a rod going through the triggerguard.I havent ever seen crated ammo along side them.
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ArizonaKnightWolf — 18 years ago(April 01, 2008 08:45 PM)
Folks, weather or not the storage area was a Guard Armory doesn't mean a thing in the movie. Listen to what the Administor says while they are taking inventory before the Cadets rebel. He says he can't beleive Bache stockpiled such a cache of weapons, or something like that. Weather or not there is an Amory at VF is meaningless. The film makers needed to put the weapons there for the movie. It's that simple.
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whitecats — 14 years ago(April 28, 2011 12:03 PM)
Military schools did and do still today have a range of weapons stored and used onsite. They are used for training, drills, marksmenship, and parade.
However, in this movie the school had explosives, select-fire rifles, and light machine guns (the M-60 Tom Cruise was firing at the end). Military academies would not have those types of weapons. So the armaments are exaggerated to increase the danger. But yes, 12 year olds carrying semiautomatic AR15s, yep. -
gabby_bm — 10 years ago(May 07, 2015 09:56 PM)
If my hazy memory serves, the explosives and weapons are simply being stored at the Academy. Some of those weapons were for training (Morland asks how they would train without these weapons once moved) but many of them were stored there with no intent for cadet usage.
It seems Bache wanted the stockpiles there in the name of national defense.
Bache has enough armament here to start World War III.
-I'm so glad they're going.- I didn't want them here in the first place.
- That was the general's notion of national defense- stockpiling.
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jgroub — 10 years ago(July 30, 2015 04:54 PM)
I was wondering about this myself. As they were taking the inventory of the weapons, the head guy says something about the National Guard using the Academy as an armory. So that explains it.
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