I've not actually looked at the prog. This is purely based on my experience from a mortal perspective coupled with my imm-knowledge of the fact that they have their own prog, and thinking about how a prog might work.

It might not be the case - the prog might just be like "move around a damn lot" and it just SEEMS like they (always, dammit) move into combat when I'm entwined as a class without word of recall.