User blog comment:Zathronas/Analysis by an author-Hiatus Edition: Glynda Goodwitch/@comment-24994749-20150107063852/@comment-24994749-20150108064158

Well, Ironwood mentions having followed Ozpin.

I make most of my headcanons under the assumption that at some point during the period of time since the end of the Great War 80 year ago until right before the birth of the first years, there was another great scale armed conflict (I lean for the Faunus Rights Revolution) in Remnant.

It would have been during said X armed conflict that Ironwood built his military career and whatever went down between him and Glynda happened.