It’s one thing to swap patches when meeting or training with allied forces in their country or ours, or even in a host allied country. But when you’re in a war zone, it’s a violation of a whole lot of laws and regulations. I have a bunch of patches from my travels. But when I was in theater, that never happened. I either wore my authorized patches, or if we went on a mission, I went sanitized, but with my military ID and dog tags. I’m not going to come down too hard on these guys, but what they did was not authorized.
Very true. I wonder though if this WAS authorised, as part of some black op or other. There are some murky policies in place.