Colonel Cathcart Timeline and Summary

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• Cathcart raises the number of missions to fifty.
• He volunteers his troops for the Ferrera mission.
• He raises the number of missions to fifty-five.
• Cathcart ruins Major Major's life by telling him he has been promoted in front of his peers.
• He gives Yossarian a medal for the Ferrera mission.
• We learn that Cathcart has ambitions to become a general.
• He meets with the chaplain to plan prayer services before missions in the hopes that it will get him into the newspaper. However, he loses confidence and the prayers never start.
• Cathcart dismisses the chaplain's plea to talk about the rising number of missions.
• He considers Yossarian a threat and makes a list of all the black eyes and feathers in his cap that have been specifically caused by Yossarian.
• He remembers the time when Yossarian showed up naked in formation and embarrassed him in front of Dreedle.
• Cathcart tells Korn that he makes Dreedle sick. Cathcart is happy.
• During Milo's surprise attack, Cathcart berates him for turning against his own country. But Milo is unfazed.
• Cathcart orders the chaplain to come to the officers' club every night, then kicks him out after Dreedle disapproves it.
• Cathcart likes Whitcomb's idea of sending out form letters of condolence. He hopes to get into the newspaper with it. He also wants to run another Avignon mission.
• Cathcart promotes Whitcomb to Sergeant.
• He raises the number of missions to sixty.
• Upset by McWatt's suicide, he raises the number of missions to sixty-five.
• When he learns of Doc Daneeka's fake death, he raises the number of missions to seventy.
• Cathcart forbids Milo from flying any more combat missions because they need him to run the syndicate.
• He raises the number of missions to eighty.
• Colonel Cathcart tells Yossarian they will send him home and cuts a deal with him. If he refuses, he promises to court-martial him. Yossarian accepts.
• Cathcart and Korn save Yossarian from "Nately's whore." They spin it as Yossarian saving them from a Nazi assassin.