Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-67.171.134.135-20150724014916/@comment-4010415-20150724023756

If you ask me, Glynda and Ironwood are younger than Ozpin and therefore weren't on his team. We already know that it's fact that Cinder couldn't have been on Ozpin's team, since the crew has stated she's not much older than the Beacon students, which means if she did attend an academy, she graduated fairly recently or only a few years ago. You don't instantly become the headmaster of an academy a few years after graduating.

There's a theory going around that Ozpin is actually over 80 years old, so it's possible that his teammates are retired and/or dead.

1. World of Remnant: Aura shows a silhouette of Ozpin while the narrator says that, with enough training, a person's Aura can make them more than "just a man."

When Pyrrha unlocked Jaune's Aura, his Aura healed him, and she said "You have a lot of it." So far, Aura has only been described as an energy that creates a defensive barrier and can be manifested as a Semblance. No mention of healing. It has been insinuated by Monty, Miles, and Kerry that the scene where Cardin punches Jaune and everything lights up is a little preview hint of his Semblance, so his Semblance isn't healing. Besides, Pyrrha wouldn't have said "You have a lot of it" at him healing if it was his Semblance.

One can assume that more/stronger Aura means the ability to heal oneself.

2. Monty outright stated that every single character in RWBY, except Ozpin "for reasons," follows the color naming rule. Ozpin said that the color naming tradition started from a war that ended almost 80 years ago.

3. "I have made more mistakes than any man, woman, and child on this planet." - Ozpin, in The Badge and the Burden Part 2.

4. "Ozpin has experience the rest of us lack." - Glynda, in Mountain Glenn.

From this, one can theorize that Ozpin was born before that war, and his Aura extends his lifespan by constantly healing and renewing his body to keep him from aging any further than he already has. Thus, he is over 80 years old.

TL;DR: Most likely, Ozpin is over 80 years old, so his teammates are retired and/or dead, and therefore, Glynda, Ironwood, and Cinder were not his teammates.