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{{group
|image=DDF Val-class Scout Ship.jpeg
|type=Starfighter pilot
|group=[[DDF]]
|hq=[[Alta Base]]
|world=Detritus
|universe=[[
|books=[[Skyward (series)]]
}}
{{quote
|We're not cowards. The DDF makes it ''very clear'' that we're not. But you might have to deal with a . . . a ''look'' now and then. It's part of the sacrifice we all make to see that the Defiant Caverns are kept safe.
|[[Blaze]] to [[Arturo]].{{book ref|sky1|41}}
}}
A '''scout''' is a position that can be held by pilots in the [[DDF]].{{book ref|sky1|41}} Cadets train with scouts during their time at [[Flight School]] and have the option to become a scout after they graduate.{{book ref|sky1|41}} There are at least fifteen scouts in the DDF, including [[FM]]; however, three are killed in the initial firefight and nine by a lifebuster bomb, during the Battle of Alta Second.{{book ref|sky1|48}} During this battle, instead of being organized in larger squads, the scouts were split into five trios.{{book ref|sky1|48}} The three scouts that survive the lifebuster return to Alta with Riptide Flight to aid Spensa, Kimmalyn, Nedd, and Arturo in defending the base from the second Krell attack.{{book ref|sky1|52}}
==Job==
▲There are one to two scouts in every full DDF Flight{{book ref|skyward|41}}, tasked with patrolling the skies, even during battles, and reporting incoming Krell forces. They look for low-riding Krell by their dust trails, Krell hiding behind hills, and how to tell whether or not something off in the distance is a Krell ship or an optical illusion. If they see an incoming force of Krell, scouts are also tasked with holding them back to buy time for the other Flights to get off the ground and provide backup. Scouts are sometimes viewed as cowards, but they understand that their job is essential to the survival of the DDF and humanity, because without them, the Krell would catch the DDF off guard and unready.
==Equipment==
Scouts are given [[Val-class]] ships, with its 138 Stewart destructor swapped out for a 131. Its sensor systems are better than the average ship
==Known Scouts and Flights==▼
▲Scouts are given Val-class ships, with its 138 Stewart destructor swapped out for a 131. Its sensor systems are better than the average ship, longer-ranged, and contain more detail.
*'''[[Remark]]''', a member of one of the other Flight School Flights, claims he has already received an offer from a full DDF Flight to be a
▲==Known Scouts==
*'''[[Cloak]]''', the seventh member of [[Ranger Flight]], and dies from the first lifebuster in the Second Battle of Alta.{{book ref|sky1|48}}
*'''[[Underscore]]''', the eighth member of [[Ranger Flight]].
▲'''Blaze''' oversaw Skyward Flight's Scout exposure training.
*'''[[FM]]''', joins the scouts after she graduates from Flight School.{{book ref|sky1|48}} She is one of three scouts that survive the lifebuster blast during the Second Battle of Alta.
*'''[[Ranger Flight]]''' is a scout Flight with at least eight members, most of if not all of its members were killed by the first lifebuster at the Second Battle of Alta.
▲'''Remark''', a member of one of the other Flight School Flights, claims he has already received an offer from a full DDF Flight to be a Scout, while eating with the other cadets.{{book ref|skyward|42}}
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