Ohhh never mind me my reading comprehension is trout

Cid didn't have a lot of confidence in the Forest Owls and probably thought the plan wouldn't get off the ground. Nothing wrong with sending some fresh SeeDs out to get some field experience, right? Although they were basically locked in for life, so... yeah, Cid was a little bit smurfing mental there. No reason to write off fresh recruits especially given how much faith he seemed to have in Squall