Watching TV made stuff is always going to distort your view. Real life stuff is far less interesting from an action orientation than what gets portrayed on the screen. Winter's primary role in this action was to organize the teams, plan the attack and keep his men moving forward. Taking up a rifle and firing it was the least important thing he did that day. Did he do it, sure. He kind of had to as part of the reason that attack is talked about so much is it was a ridiculously small force to accomplish the mission and only succeeded because of the training, elan and leadership of the unit. To use that as a general use case in a discussion is like saying I got hit by a screw that fell off of Skylab to show how dangerous the space program is.
Regarding command delays. Any player is free to include them in their own play style. I actually do it from time to time to create more of a story playing than just gaming it. It can certainly be fun. When doing that I also look at the soft factors to decide how long it might take that specific commander to formulate and issue orders and make sure there are C2 links, can the commander meet face to face with sub commanders, do I have runners etc. Doing that though means every scenario you play then should probably be kicked out to the full 4 hours so you don't get frustrated only playing 50% or less of the scenario. On the other hand I am with IanL on this. I absolutely do not want to see them back in the game.
