Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24432027-20160203024131/@comment-410526-20160617111746

As Phantom says, there's no such thing as a generic Huntsman. I'm glad they didn't introduce any, since that would only make our protagonists stick out more.

And anyway, Vale is a big place and we only saw a couple streets at ground level aside from the Battle of Beacon. There could have been a lot of Huntsmen and Huntresses doing important things off-screen.

In E7, we hear this on the news: "Despite Atlas reinforcements, local authorities are still calling on any available Huntsmen to aid in suppressing the spike in Grimm activity." So I assume a lot of Huntsmen were fighting the Grimm off-screen.

Also note that by the end of Vol3, Vale has been successfully retaken from the Grimm (though Beacon remains overrun). I doubt 5 people (Ironwood, Glynda, Qrow, Port and Oobleck) could have managed to clear the entire city of Grimm entirely on their own, there had to be a lot of Huntsmen and Huntresses helping them out there.