Two U.S. Army recruits, who are members of the Sikh faith, have filed a complaint against the Army over rules that require them to cut their hair and beards and forbids them to wear turbans. The Sikhs ...
MINEOLA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- A Sikh college student has sued the Army, saying he cannot join the Reserve Officer Training Corps unless he violates his religious beliefs by removing his turban, ...
U.S. Army Capt. Tejdeep Singh Rattan is making history. This week, Rattan, who is an American Sikh, completed his nine-week basic officer training course at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio — making ...
The social justice reckoning that has taken place in the United States is very public, but in the private ranks of the military, a similar battle is being waged. Sikh Americans who serve in the U.S.
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- In 2012, I immigrated to the United States at age 24. I knew I was going to a whole new world, one that was markedly different from Jaipur, India, where I was born ...
After James Holmes launched a Batman-movie massacre in Colorado on July 20 that killed 12, the U.S. Army quickly issued a statement declaring that he had never served in an Army uniform. Monday ...
CAMP SMITH TRAINING SITE, New York— Soldiers of the New York Army National Guard’s 1156th Engineer Company got a lesson in Indian military history and a taste of traditional Indian food during their ...
For the past 30 years, the Army has barred soldiers from wearing beards, or articles of clothing like turbans, for religious reasons. The service contends they hamper the proper use of gas masks and ...
Aekash Singh and Milaap Singh Chahal, center and right, outside of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in October. (Sikh Coalition) A former secretary of the Army and three retired generals criticized ...
A prominent Sikh Marine officer, as well as several Sikh Marine recruits, filed a federal lawsuit Monday that they hope will get the service to let them serve openly with their turban and beards at ...
Two Sikh men are looking forward to being at boot camp in the coming weeks after a federal appeals court told the Marine Corps that it must accommodate the mens’ request to wear their hair and beards ...
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