Really? Usually recovering SEALs is taken pretty darn seriously. Any references for when this has not been the case? Certainly would be an outlier.
If you need to get special operators somewhere fast, for a mission that might last a day, it would potentially allow you to route other assets for recovery. The main issue is sometimes speed-to-deployment, I imagine.
Doubt they would leave a group of highly-trained operators sitting around with no recovery plan.
