Weapons

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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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thepunisher1248 — 15 years ago(March 23, 2011 07:36 PM)

i do like taps it a good movie but my question is WHY DOES A MILATARY SCHOOL NEED THAT MUCH FIRE POWER?!!!!
someone please tell me i would love to hear why
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ltomby — 14 years ago(April 07, 2011 07:42 AM)

It states in the film by one of the School board members It''was the Generals thought that the first line of defense begin with..[the cadets].

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Stevicus-2 — 14 years ago(April 10, 2011 10:53 AM)

It was during the Cold War, and there were those back then who thought the whole country should be prepared, just in case.

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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.

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mp_usmc_srt — 10 years ago(April 04, 2015 01:19 AM)

Falsehood. During the cold war Era many academies had such firearms in the armory.
Stop spreading disinformation.

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GhostRiver — 10 years ago(December 10, 2015 07:40 PM)

Falsehood. Stop posting false falsehoods, simpleton.

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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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the_la_baker — 10 years ago(January 02, 2016 07:35 PM)

Correct. It was stated they were storing arms for the national guard, as well as cadet training.
The surplus was for the national guard.

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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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