Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171104074017/@comment-27082610-20171106234352

BenRG wrote: I suspect that guarding Amber was a very unofficial assignment (given the secrecy of Ozpin's cabal). It's possible that Qrow's official mission was to guard the munitions train and to notify the authorities if any White Fang agents were seen hanging around it.

Disliking Jacques Schnee on a profound personal level, Qrow chose to interpret those orders as meaning 'do not engage, only report back'. Or maybe he got some kind of distress beacon from Amber so he had to break off his planned engagement with Adam and Blake to protect the Fall Maiden. What munitions train? They were miles away from Forever Fall, if you're talking about the Black Trailer. Otherwise that's ridiculous. Qrow would have no reason to take that job, and as a Huntsman he gets to choose his assignments.