I don't think you can be decorated for disobeying a direct order from the regimental commander.

But, I do agree that it was a good decision on Winter's part. For Colonel Sink to order a patrol like that so late in the war is just plain stupidity. These men survived Normandy, Holland, and Bastogne. One men already died on the last patrol. Why waste more good men?

"'Now Sink wasn’t being mean when he ordered the second patrol,' Winters said looking back 58 years later. 'He was proud of what we had done. But it was a dumb, dumb decision.'
Winters filed no after action report on the patrol that never was, nor did Sink ever request one. Perhaps he knew the second patrol never occurred, perhaps he didn’t. Either way he said nothing."
-Biggest Brother by Larry Alexander

By the way, welcome back to the forums, Ice. I haven't seen you in a while. [img]graemlins/salute.gif[/img]