Is that not what our combat training is for? You needn't be there to protect everyone if you can teach them to do so themselves.

( There's a part of him that almost wants to go up to Soldat, take him by the shoulders and shake him. Of all the people in Beacon that should think themselves useless, he is one of the last. He wishes that he could make him see that, but he's not so good at expressing it. )