User blog comment:Deathmanstratos/Black Ops II Apocalypse DLC announced/@comment-173.58.53.40-20130808202214/@comment-3091118-20130809042050

Thing is though if they were that unimportant, then Richtofen would have simply killed them, like Maxis. Richtofen values them for some reason, otherwise he wouldn't have jumped into Samuel. Also both Richtofen and Maxis take notice of their skills, as almost no one was able to power more than one tower, or if they did then someone else in the other groups would sabatage the work.