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{{character
|profession={{cat tag|DDF pilots}}
|titles=Admiral of the Fleet of the [[DDF]],{{book ref|Starsight|4}} Callsign: Mongrel
|groups=[[DDF]], Flight Instructor
|world=Detritus
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|books=[[Skyward (series)]]
}}{{spoilers|book=skyward}}▼
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{{update|book=Starsight}}
'''Captain Matthew Cobb''' (callsign: '''Mongrel''') is a flight instructor for the [[DDF]]. He fought the [[Battle of Alta]] making him a [[First Citizen]].▼
{{quote|I feel like a munitions man, reloading artillery. I stuff you into the chamber, fire you into the sky, then grab another shell|Cobb's speech on his teaching of flight classes}}
▲'''Captain Matthew{{wob ref|12166}} Cobb''' (callsign: '''Mongrel''') is a flight instructor for the [[DDF]]. He fought the [[Battle of Alta]] making him a [[First Citizen]].
== Appearance and Personality ==
He doesn’t have a sense of humor and is very strict with his class. {{book ref|Skyward|8}} Cobb cares for his students and grieves when they die. He has strong feelings against those who believe they should not eject when there is danger of dying. {{book ref|Skyward|33}}
He is vocal about his feeling of spending so many lives in this war. Quoting he said: “I feel like a munitions man, reloading artillery. I stuff you into the chamber, fire you into the sky, then grab another shell”.{{book ref|Skyward|20}}
Cobb is as open with his students and answers as many “hard questions” as he can. He talked about Krell strategy and other topics that seemed banned. {{book ref|Skyward|38}}
When Morningtide and Bim died, he intended not to talk about it and worked them hard to forget. When he saw the discomfort of the team, he tried to give a speech: “I feel like a munitions man, reloading artillery. I stuff you into the chamber, fire you into the sky, then grab another shell”. This unsettled them more and Spensa jumped in with a better speech about aiming for the sky where they are now. As soon as she finished, Cobb just asked them to stop wasting time and put their helmets on. {{book ref|Skyward|20}}
After some more training, battles and many questions from the team on Krell tactics, Cobb shared with them some confidential
He also let them know the fights used in the simulation are modifications of real battles, one in particular was the Battle of Trajerto and it was used to explain that if they needed to choose between Alta and Igneous, the second one is more important. They had to destroy Alta on that particular simulation. This gave Spensa the idea of looking for the Battle of Alta on the archives. {{book ref|Skyward|27}}
He helped Spensa learn the truth about her father and followed through explaining people believe there is a genetic defect for his actions and asked her if she saw eyes in the dark or could hear the stars as her father had confessed he had, before the incident. {{book ref|Skyward|40}}
During the Second Battle of Alta, he is contacted by
== Attributes and Abilities ==
Cobb was an excellent pilot who stopped flying after the [[Battle of Alta]] due to the trauma it caused him. {{book ref|Skyward|21}}
As
As commander of his flight, he chooses tactics based on the danger his crew would be exposed to.{{book ref|Skyward|25}} Because of this, his class is considered the safest one.{{book ref|Skyward|34}}
== Notes ==
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|title=Admiral of the Fleet of the<br>[[Defiant Defense Force]]
|prev=[[Judy Ivans]]
|this=83 <span title="Landfall Date"> LD</span> to present
|next=''incumbent''
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