Harry's battalion always had to have a SF or SFSG attachment to it apparently.
Problem was those resources in war were starting to be needed elsewhere. So babysitting him became an "issue".
His location though, I do believe was "leaked" I don't think it was a cover story, but how the leak occured could well be some smoke and mirrors.
Although an infantry officer at his first deployment, he wasn't tasked with walking through Helmand on foot patrols, they were given FOB's to man, (Forward Operating Base). Still and arduous job, still not "safe" nobody is safe in a war zone.
He did serve, and he was in a war zone, so I don't think you can take any of that away from him. He still encountered live fire and so on.