Talk:Blake Belladonna/@comment-28171999-20190311004810/@comment-4141313-20190313225128

They're less soldiers and more aline with Mercenaries or Freelancers. Seeing as we've seen actual soldiers and Huntsman in a military via Atlas conscripting all graduates into their military, the other Huntsman are all basically hired guns. It helps that back in Volume 3 Qrow mentioned this line:

Qrow: I decided to start my search at the town's inn. The place was crawling with lowlifes and thugs, even a few Huntsmen that I could only assume had been hired by less-than reputable people for less-than respectable jobs.

And later Adam mentions this line:

Adam: You could've gone to anyone for help. You could've made a deal with a gang leader, paid off some Huntsmen that have strayed from their... righteous path... but instead, you choose to seek an audience with me.

So for all intents and purposes, Huntsmen are glorified mercenaries. And while they're expected to stick on the straight and narrow and help humanity, nothing is stopping them from doing whatever the hell they want once they graduate. Raven is proof enough of that, considering the whole reason she became a Huntress was to learn how to kill other Huntsmen, and she returned to her Tribe, eventually becoming Bandit Queen.