Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3146930-20140708014442/@comment-24891101-20140723052248

Certainly my impression is of her being apprenticed to Adam, clearly a high-level troubleshooter, saboteur, assassin, and being groomed for a similar role. Whether that went anywhere is somewhat open, though based on her reaction to the train job, she draws the line at normal, non-political employees, though she may have had fewer qualms about more directly-involved Schnee personnel, at least when it comes down to it, possibly previously rationalized as unfortunate collateral damage in cases similar to the former, and necessary in the latter (Adam's callous disregard certainly didn't help). It is possible that the train job was her first outing as a major part of a strike team, previously having participated in other operations in a support role, and the enormity of what she had condoned and abetted came crashing down. Or, she may have been looking for an opportunity to run previously, and had been trying to steer her supervisor into less bloodshed; she certainly seemed rather reluctant to start the train job.

Certainly I think she has the most man-to-man combat training of all of RWBY (Weiss, being a fencer, and Yang's possible boxing experience are too formalized). Pyrrha, of course, takes that crown easily on JNPR's side. In addition, the ease with which she can disguise her heritage (the bow, contacts if necessary) means she may have been given some infiltration training, apart from Adam (his horns, and entire modus are not exactly subtle), in which case I hope at some point her tradecraft is put to good use.

It is almost certain that she was trained to assassinate, but it is less likely that she ever did so.