My guess is that they use the same trick that lets Americans serve in the French Foreign Legion without having to give up their citizenship. The FFL requires an oath of obedience to their officers, not to the French government, thus there is no oath of allegience to a Foreign Prince (if I remember the words of the Constitution correctly). The officers are all French citizens, of course, and their oath is to the government.
Likewise, while helping the village, the trooper is obeying orders to remove the threat, not to help the village. If ordered to heal a villager, OTOH, he might have to refuse, since that is helping an Orlanthi more directly. On the third hand, if ordered to hand over his healing matrix, he could, even though the officer was obviously going to use it on the same Orlanthi. It is the job of an officer to explain the difference, ideally without having to crucify too many of the less philosophically-adept.
Similar quibbling and hair-splitting is used by other groups in Glorantha, such as the Brithini Horals. There is an article about this in the Archives somewhere that was hilarious, describing how when they attack the enemy, it doesn't count as killing them, since the soldiers just hack the enemy until they stop moving, which didn't kill them back in the GodTime, when the "Logical Laws" that govern Brithini society were laid down.
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