Despite his efforts, Scheisskopf’s squadron is ranked last three weeks in a row. Pennants are given as prizes, but Yossarian sees these cumbersome objects as useless. The men groan and collapse in the intense heat as a bloated colonel judges them. Strangely, Clevinger also takes the parades as seriously as Scheisskopf does, though the other troops hate the parades. Despite the huge amounts of testimony against him, Clevinger still has not been charged with anything. In his spare time, he also recruits cadets to give false testimony against the brilliant Clevinger. Meanwhile, Scheisskopf is too obsessed with trying to win the weekly parade to pay much attention to his wife's amorous advances. Yossarian enjoys sleeping with Scheisskopf's wife. His wife and her friend Doris Duz make themselves as available to the men as much as possible. He fails to note the dangers of correcting Lieutenant Scheisskopf despite Yossarian’s warnings. He talks too much about Aristotle and is a dope with women. He sides with both left wingers and right wingers and thus is hated by both sides. Clevinger, a brilliant Harvard graduate who has intelligence but not brains, cannot understand how Milo can run his syndicate profitably.
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