The skull logo badge was specially designed for the UK’s Special Air Service (SAS) and is worn as a patch on the side of a soldier’s helmet or on the front of their body armour. SAS troops are handed it after making their first combat “kill”.
Senior UK officials have ordered the country’s Special Air Service (SAS) to stop wearing comic-book Punisher skull badges on their uniforms, arguing that they look like the Death’s Head (Totenkopf) emblem worn by Hitler’s SS, the Daily Star reports.
The Punisher skull is worn by SAS soldiers after they make their first kill during military operations; the badges started being used while UK troops were serving with US Navy Seals in Iraq.