wearing kit that is more suitable to their new conditions and also may allow them to merge with the ground troops and not be singled out for 'special' treatment if captured? I think I would prefer to look just like one of the 'lads' and without any special badges or brevets.
That was one of the theories behind the fire retardant CS95. Unfortunately, as already mentioned, the colour is different from the standard desert CS95 - to use the 'piss colour' analogy already proferred, the fire retardant stuff is a couple of steps closer to dehydration. Still, it's a reasonably subtle difference. A more obvious point would be the aircrew's lack of body armour / helmet / daysack (for a fast jet ejectee, anyway; I guess RW/ME guys might have time to grab theirs depending on the severity of any post-crash fire). And of course, our FR CS95 no longer blends in with UK ground forces as they are all wearing a different camouflage pattern now!
As for badges, ground forces seem to have overtaken aircrew in the badge fetish stakes... DZ flashes, TRFs, service badges, specialist badges galore! Aircrew fly fully "sanitised", although quite why the Taliban would care which squadron you were from somewhat escapes me.