Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24177652-20141213090518/@comment-25857155-20150306200825

Just remember that Beacon and Signal are training grounds for Huntsmen and Huntresses, who we can be certain have an incredibly high rate of risk in their career field. Hunters are like the Navy Seals fused with Knights, Marines, and Pararescue, y'know? Just like in training soldiers in today's military, there is an "acceptable risk" factor involved. On a related tangent, I recently learned that the U.S. Army has an 'acceptable injury and fatality rate' for their airborne jump training, making me even more happy to be in the NOT Army.

While not pointed out in the show (probably to keep it "family friendly"), I think we can be fairly certain that there would be a number of injuries and fatalities involved in combat training schools given their nature, regardless of how strong students' Aura's might be. On that note, I rather think RT has under-represented the danger of the students' weapons, particularly complicated ones like Ruby's HPSS (seriously, combined with her semblance, that thing is ridiculously dangerous) or Blake's VBCS (again, very dangerous - blade spinning around controlled only by a reinforced ribbon) and the amount of skill required to use them.

I can also see a number of students being involved in early action on the streets or in the neighboring forests - relatively low-danger stuff compared to actual Hunters, of course, but still - such things would be as expected of junior hunters as it is expected of soldiers to curse or get in bar fights (regardless of how accurate or inaccurate that particular stereotype is). Seriously, I'm almost disappointed with how little trouble our MCs have been getting into. =P Maybe I've been reading too many fanfictions.