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
may the force be with you
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].
shareIt was during the Cold War, and there were those back then who thought the whole country should be prepared, just in case.
shareMilitary 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.
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....
Correct. It was stated they were storing arms for the national guard, as well as cadet training.
The surplus was for the national guard.
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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