Major Major Major Major is an officer whose last name is Major. His first and second names are Major. He holds the rank of major. Major enters the Army as a private, but a computer promotes him to the fourth officer grade of major within four days. Major has always felt isolated and wants only “to be absorbed,” to feel that he is one of the guys; for a brief period, he enjoys that status on Pianosa. Unfortunately, Colonel Cathcart appoints Major Major to be the new squadron commander almost immediately. The rest of the men ostracize the new commander.
Clevinger’s plane disappears in a cloud off the coast of Elba on a milk run to Parma, leading the narrator to a flashback of another disappearance at Lowery Field, two years before, and the story of Ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen. We learn the identity of the dead man in Yossarian’s tent.
