On September 15 he formed a cavalry squadron out of marauders and left-overs from various units.
"You mean, you're forming a secret squadron to fly B-2A bombing missions?"
There he formed a squadron of armed vessels to attack merchant ships and blockade Veracruz.
Typically four vics would fly together one after another to form a squadron.
I'm being sent back for a bit of leave and to form a new squadron.
"But you are his senior officer; the two ketches form a squadron."
Each regiment could only form a single mobile squadron, the remaining two serving as infantry.
But casualties at this time proved to be less than expected, so the replacement pool was used to form a new squadron.
In Novermber, 1914, he made an appeal to the federal government for a grant of $116,000 to form a squadron.
On 17 September 1991, the operations and maintenance functions of the 1st joined to form a combined squadron.