Mudd
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- For other uses, see Mudd (disambiguation).
Lt. Mudd, a character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22, is the dead man in Yossarian's tent. He was killed in action before signing in properly. Because he died before officially arriving in the squadron, his name cannot be removed, and he lives on permanently on record in Yossarian's tent, despite all efforts to remove him. When Yossarian's new roommates solve this problem by simply throwing away the dead man's things, Yossarian panics, afraid that he can be disposed of just as easily.