I'll surely defer to a guy who was there…I wasn't.
The repetitive ingress stuff was from my recall of Robin Olds' "Operation BOLO" (I think…) tactics , wherein, as I understand it, the F-4 wing emulated the oft-used F-105 strike package ingress route, altitude, time of day, and successfully suckered the VPAF fighters into battle where the odds were stacked against the defenders. Glad the Navy had a better way.
Navy and Air Force operated in two entirely different universes. You are right about the AF ingress. Operation BOLO was early in the War and the Air Force did finally modify their tactics later after losing a lot of men.
Experience level differences were amazing! Air Force guys had one tour and were done. We had Navy guys on their 4th, or 5th combat cruise leading our strikes. They were good! Some Air Force guys came from the transport community to get their check in the box and didn't know what they were doing, even if they were senior. Our guys were strictly fighter/attack. (Except one who later got sent home.)
I remember our SAR fished an AF F-4 crew out of the water after they ran out of gas. I was told the two pilots only had 400 total time
combined, and very little of it in the F-4. By the time of my 1st cruise I had 300 from the training command, 100 hours in the F-4 RAG, maybe another 100 during workups for 500 hours TT, 200 in the Fox-Four.
Of course the B-52 Christmas raids run by generals at Offut AFB in Omaha probably capped the stupidity. They nearly had a mass mutiny at the O'Club in Guam after the 3rd night, until they change tactics.
The Navy and Marines did us proud. The Air Force did not.