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    Politics · Special Investigation

    Public Records Suggest Nation's Pigeons Were Never Taken Off the Government Payroll

    A six-month review of military archives, procurement filings, and municipal bird counts points to a single, inescapable conclusion that officials refuse to deny in sufficiently specific terms.

    Portrait of Marguerite Voss By Marguerite Voss Senior Accountability Correspondent
    July 22, 2026
    A pigeon stands on the stone ledge of a neoclassical civic building
    A pigeon outside a civic building, where it had no scheduled business. Staff photograph / Records pending

    For forty years, the United States Army operated an official Pigeon Service out of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. This is not in dispute. The program bred, trained, and deployed thousands of messenger birds; one of them, Cher Ami, was awarded the French Croix de Guerre for delivering a message that saved nearly two hundred American soldiers in 1918. The Army maintained the service through two world wars before announcing its disbandment in 1957, citing advances in electronic communication.

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    From the Unfiled Desks

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    Science & Technology

    Research Software Confirms Sharks Predate Its Latest Update

    The geological record is clear. Engineers are reviewing why the compatibility notice was not.

    Briefing filed · Full report pending

    Corrections & Clarifications

    A previous version of this article referred to margarine as "butter" in one instance. Margarine has never been butter. We regret the era in which this was unclear. (ref.)

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