Originally Posted by
hunterboy
Could someone explain why you would take your name off your flightsuit if you are going to disclose your name/rank and serial number anyway if captured?
The gold-standard in the RAF was to wear a 'clean' grow-bag devoid of badges AND velcro. Just rank slides.
You wouldn't want an interrogator examining your brightly coloured 'Jaguar 1000+ Heures' badge and learning more about you than you want him to know...before you even opened your mouth!
Same principle for the velcro patch said badge is attached to. You don't want an interrogator holding up your distinctive triangular velcro patch and using it to help lead the Q&A session where he wants it to go!
But that is old-school Law of Armed Conflict rules against an enemy who follows the GC!
Luckily for this chap, Pakistan is a signatory to the GC Art 1 to 4 and the first 2 protocols. All good then.