I typed up a longer reply but then lost it.
Here's a shorter version; seeing crap go down thru the straw isn't likely very different from a manned platform vice a feed from a UAV. However, if the *mission* GCS is located in your home country and you go home every night/day, that's not really deploying either.
I can see good points for both the Yes and No sides of this one. The launch/recovery GCS in theatre isn't really doing much of the mission, but they are closer to real risk/danger physically. But the mission crew might see lots of targets being smacked, which can be...it can stick in your head. Looking thru a scope, you're likely close enough to see the bad guy/girls and have decent PID in your own mind. But looking thru the straw, at altitude at night,watching an IR feed, that target that just got smacked is harder for you to personally confirm in your own head "cert MAM/FAM/whatever term is being used". That kind of stuff can linger and eat away at scope dopes IMO.