Maj. Kamaljeet Kalsi, a civil affairs officer in the Army Reserve's 404th Civil Affairs Battalion at Fort Dix, New Jersey, is a Sikh Soldier who wears both a turban and a beard.

ACLU Last year, the Air Force granted the first Muslim airman an exemption to wear a beard while in uniform, and in 2017 the U.S. Army said it would allow turbans and hijabs.

With a large number of Sikhs across the world, the issue of turbans and beards on Sikhs in uniform has come up in a number of places. In New York City, for example, Sikh traffic officers took ...

When Darsheel Kaur was a middle school student in Beavercreek, there was only one sentence about her heritage in one of her school’s history textbooks — and it was incorrect.

Now a private first class, Singh, 21, has become the first Marine known to have made it through boot camp with his Sikh articles of faith, including unshorn hair and a turban, beard and steel ...

A federal court has ruled that a Sikh college student must be allowed to join his school’s Army ROTC with his long hair, beard and turban intact. In her decision, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the ...

A federal judge this month ordered the Marine Corps to allow a Sikh recruit to keep his long hair, beard and “articles of faith” while he’s in boot bamp.

Sikhs do not shave or cut their hair, and the men typically wear a turban to protect their long locks. The men’s turbans and beards are articles of faith that sometimes make them targets of ...

He removed his turban, cut his unshorn hair and shaved his beard – an unprecedented move in his family. Giving up these visible markers of his Sikh faith worked to an extent.

The US Air Force granted a religious accommodation to a Sikh airman to allow him to wear a turban, beard and unshorn hair while serving, making him the first active duty airman to receive such an ...