User blog comment:WarrenWitch/Yang nails it, Pyrrha gets her man, Weiss chooses the lesser of two evils...and Ruby hits a crow/@comment-11942246-20130816050909/@comment-10390252-20130816114406

@ Zohnir,

So... You would have cadets in the first full day of their training sent out into a live combat zone? I love your approach to teaching, there! Yes, I'm being sarcastic. There is a difference between 'babying' and 'maximising the chances of graduating'. There is no point training people to be warriors if the training process kills a large portion before they reach the front lines. That's a moronic waste of resources.

Yes, Ruby has the skills to fight; they probably all have the skills to fight. However, Weiss rightly pointed out that there is a big difference between the structured training (think of it as a sort of equivalent of Basic Training in our militaries) provided at places like Signal and Sanctum and being ready for front-line combat against these things. It would be like, for example, having a just-qualified PFC and sending him on a live SOCOM mission first day at special forces training.

No, sorry, your perception of this is not based on sanity, reasonable use of resources or any kind of logic. Whoever developed such a training process would be the best ally the Grim ever had - killing the maximum number of potential protectors of the world before they are ready for front-line work.