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 ...

Maj. Singh joined the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 2007. Shortly after, a commander approached him saying if we wanted to stay, he would have to shave his beard and remove his turban.

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 ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Sikh American deliveryman who claimed his routes at Walt Disney World were restricted so visitors wouldn’t see his turban and unshaved beard has won the right to have ...

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.

More officers are on the job with tattoos inked on their forearms, beards on their chins or religious head coverings like hijabs and turbans in place of – or tucked beneath – their blue caps.

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 ...

As the Sikh diaspora has spread 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 ...