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|image=DDF Val-class Scout Ship.jpeg
|type=Starfighter pilot
|group=[[DDF]]
|hq=[[Alta Base]]
|world=Detritus
|universe=[[
|books=[[Skyward (series)]]
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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
==Job==
Scouts are tasked with patrolling the skies and reporting incoming [[varvax|Krell]] forces both during and outside of battle.{{book ref|sky1|41}} They look for low-riding Krell by their dust trails, as well as for Krell hiding behind hills, and teach cadets 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 [[:Category:DDF Flights|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.{{book ref|sky1|41}}
==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==
*'''[[Blaze]]''',
*'''[[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}}
*'''[[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]].
*'''[[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
▲'''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.
==Notes==
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