Originally in the early days they were called Parrot-Troopers and carried birds on their shoulders when they jumped. This experement only lasted a brief time, as the birds either abandoned the jumpers in mid-flight or else held on for dear life so hard that they had to be surgically removed after the jump, leaving stains on the uniforms and sizeable scars underneath. Also, when captured, the stool-parrots would blab anything they knew for tha price of a cracker or sexual companionship.
They changed over to carrier pigeons within the month and changed the spelling and the rest is Historectomy (History once-removed)....
Three of a kind usually beats a para-anything but a good pair of certain things still beat all!.....