Top-Cone - The Battle of Hanoi

Top-cone became a permanent detachment appearing in the rag organizational chart with a solid line instead of a dotted line connecting it to Steve Smith's headquarters. The tactics we developed at Miramar changed the game altogether, says Jocko. By mid-June, the Navy's kill ratio during linebacker stood at almost 12 to 1, a 600% increase over what we had managed during rolling thunder. Sadly, the Air Force fought the 1972 air campaign essentially as it had rolling thunder.