The Escalating Mission CountColonel Cathcart's repeated increases in required combat missions, driving the men to despair.1Initial twenty-five missionsBefore Colonel Cathcart's arrival2Raise to forty missionsAfter Yossarian returns from hospital, before Bologna3Raise to fifty-five missionsAfter Bologna, before Avignon4Raise to sixty missionsAfter Avignon, before Nately's death5Raise to sixty-five and seventyAfter Kid Sampson's death and McWatt's suicide6Raise to eighty missionsAfter Nately's death at Spezia