Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-26512661-20200118161649/@comment-4010415-20200128002756

Unfortunately, Ironwood's too busy panicking and being paranoid to bother sending a recon team.

We even learned in Volume 2 that he doesn't always send recon. Sending Oobleck and RWBY as recon to Mountan Glenn was Ozpin's idea, to counter Ironwood's idea of just going ahead and sending troops to tear the place up.