So you battle your way towards that ending and the hopeful part of your brain is still expecting a last
minute evac during the desperate final fight, the gut punch that help simply isn't coming and that you are going to die... alone... in the dirt, actually matters.
When the team managed to keep The Red Eye safe, the game started a post-game epilogue, in which the winning team had to bolt for their
evac, with only a
minute to get on or be left behind.