This . . . cruise was really a high point of the war, and we lost an awful lot of people. Air Wing 16 became known as “Bloody 16.” . . . CAG-16 was doing what had been done and worked in the past, but it didn’t work in 1967. We followed the same tactics so often the North Vietnamese were setting up for it, they knew what to expect. Eventually CAG picked up on a little diversity, helped by suggestions like “CAG, we’re not flying with you anymore.”
—Denis Weichman, VA-164, quoted in Jeffrey L. Levinson, Alpha Strike Vietnam