Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181208003742/@comment-27312496-20181208182528

ACWeapons wrote: He has the cane. That should offer some credence. And he has some of Ozpin's old memories so there could be something he can say to convince him.

They'd have to get through the chain of command, many of whom wouldn't know the relation between them and Ironwood, in order to get to him first. Someone in that chain might just brush them off as a bunch of nobodies trying to get to the highest ranking commander of Atlas.