Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-294840-20170719134411/@comment-26397825-20170801025403

73.Anon.52 wrote: You cannot make professionals from rookies without experience, You can however keep them from going on missions above their level.

The mission to Mountain Glen was locked to first years. What he should have done is send a higher level team under Oobleck to the area, letting them know to also keep an eye out for White Fang actvity as there were reports of it. Rather than bending the rules because "RWBY and Ruby Rose and oh so special", he should have done his job as the Headmaster of the Academy and assigned the mission to people who were actually trained enough to go on the primary mission - search and destroy Grimm - rather than trust a group of 17-and-under who the previous day were in the epicentre of a multi-highway chase scene involving robots and cars being thrown like pebbles, which undou btedly caused at least a dozen deaths, and by the way, that was the direct result of getting said information.

Ironwood bombing Mountain Glenn wouldn't be the perfect solution. But it would: And PR isn't a problem since, you know, White Fang are terrorists. Ironwood would dig through the rubble to see what they were doing, which would mean he would find the train, the bombs (or remains of the bombs), White Fang bodies, the Dust...then he and Ozpin can easily spin a story about White Fang members found with bombs and an absurd amount of stolen dust and a tunnel leading directly into the heart of one of the residential districts of Vale.
 * Remove access to that particular tunnel, meaning they would have to find a new tunnel leading to a good location with train tracks running through it to transport bombs/dust through them
 * Set Cinder's plan for the Grimm attack back months, as all that dust and whatever would be inaccessible to her until it got dug out and the operation replanned/reorganised, meaning Roman would have to start again (if he got away from the blast)
 * Severely cut into the White Fang's forces just like the actual Breach did
 * Cinder would have to find a new way to get Roman captured so he could end up on the brig of the Atlas battleship, which was essential for Cinder hacking the Atlesian Knights.

No matter how the White Fang spins it about just trying to find a new place to live, or reclaim old territory, they are terrorists, have attacked peaceful protests before, and that is a ton of stolen dust and bombs. It looks extremely bad.