Captain Black is delighted when he hears that Colonel Cathcart has volunteered the squadron for an apparently treacherous raid on Bologna, which terrifies most of the airmen. The whole affair reminds Black of the fun he had scaring people with the Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade. The airmen who must go on the run to Bologna are desperate to find a way to avoid the mission. Yossarian temporarily succeeds by exploiting the military’s propensity for confusing cause and effect. Ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, now a mail clerk at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters, attempts to compete with Milo on the black market, selling Zippo lighters stolen from the quartermaster.
