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@Anon,

Actually, you can become a general just by pushing papers. Some staff officers haven't been in a front-line unit since they got their O3 promotion, depending on their career path.

That said, I'm pretty sure that Ironwood is a Huntsman as well as a general and I'm sure that he could raise quite a rucus if he chose to do so.

However, if my theory that he and Cinder have a short-term alliance of convenience going on, he might find it useful to try to blame everything on Ruby or at least try to. The objective will be to bog Ozpin down with a slow, methodical investigation to give Cinder a chance to finish her devilish plot.