Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140404003915/@comment-24831427-20140422064907

I would imagine that, just like in real life combat training, that there would be regulations put in place to reduce the infliction of mortal or permanently crippling injuries (you wouldn't want to have soliders be taken out of commission because of training injuries when you really need them, like, say, during a war) but there's always going to be risk involved.

Then again, a lot of it would depend on the culture of Vale and the surrounding nations. We see Ozpin, for example, throw students off a cliff with seemingly little regard for their safety and leave them to fend for themselves in a place where they could easily be torn to shreds.

At this point its difficult to guage exactly how Hunters (or at least Hunters-in-training) are treated, and to what extent Ozpin and the other headmasters adopt a Spartan-like "survival of the fittest" mindset when it comes to training combatants.