每个人都对这一事件感到兴高采烈,大部分的卡斯卡特上校都坚信自己赢得了帽子的羽毛。每次见面时,他都会大致向米洛(Milo)致意,并以过多的慷慨大度向米洛(Milo)冲动,冲动地建议了晋升专业的专业。该建议在第27空军总部立即被Ex-P.F.C拒绝。温特格林(Wintergreen)抄写了一个残酷的,未签名的提醒,提醒军队只有一个主要的少校,并且不打算通过晋升而失去他,只是为了取悦上校的卡斯卡特上校。(Everyone was elated with this turn of events, most of all Colonel Cathcart, who was convinced he had won a feather in his cap. He greeted Milo jovially each time they met and, in an excess of contrite generosity, impulsively recommended Major Major for promotion. The recommendation was rejected at once at Twenty- seventh Air Force Headquaters by ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, who scribbled a brusque, unsigned reminder that the Army had only one Major Major Major Major and did not intend to lose him by promotion just to please Colonel Cathcart.)