I am willing to believe that this was an ignorant mistake...Looks like the Corps has handled it correctly...Why use a lame Nazi looking symbol when the Marine Corps has the Eagle,Globe,and Anchor?
Just for fun, Google “45th infantry patch”
On 19 October 1920, the Oklahoma State militia was organized as the 45th Infantry Division of the Oklahoma Army National Guard and organized with troops from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
The division was organized and federally recognized on 3 August 1923 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It was assigned the 89th Infantry Brigade of the Colorado and Arizona National Guards, and the 90th Infantry Brigade of the Oklahoma National Guard.
A red diamond with a yellow swastika inside it. Before the 1930s, the division's symbol was a red square with a yellow right-facing swastika, a tribute to the large Native American population in the south-western United States.
The division's original shoulder sleeve insignia featured a right-facing swastika, a common Native American symbol, as a tribute to the south-western United States region which had a large population of Native Americans.
They knew what it was,, and thought it made them look tough and all. They should be ashamed to have that logo. The punishment should be a sweaty afternoon reminding them that the Eagle, Globe and Anchor beats any SS crap,, any day. Why have the logo of a lesser quality unit on their flag? The SS was never the equivalent of the USMC of that era. They could have never taken Iwo Jima,,,