Scott through the Years
Scott Field Signal Corps personnel maintained a pigeon coop, which was used for communications as later decades would use the radio. Homing pigeons were commonly used in a war time environment due to their exceptional skill in being able to return back to their home coop. They would carry messages in a canister on their leg, sometimes accomplishing dozens of missions, while at risk of being shot out of the sky by enemy soldiers.
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