‘Beard did not make any hindrance to military service’: The Sikh Council reacted to the new grooming policy of the US Army, no permanent shaving waves

The Sikh Council has reacted to the new grooming policy, which was announced by the US Army, in which the permanent shaving waves beyond the religious residence. According to the new rules, soldiers may have to face removal when required shaved exemption for more than 12 months over a period of two years. Service spokesperson Steve Warren said, “It is about uniformity, discipline and standards, and it is about training.”The Sikh coalition issued a statement reacting to the policy of grooming and stated that it has been demonstrated a time and time that there is no obstacle to the competent and respectable military service from maintaining a beard.The fight during our work of more than 15 years to assist the Sikhs to assist the Sikhs and for policy changes within all the army’s branches, it has been demonstrated that there is no obstruction to the maintenance and respectable military service enabled and respected from maintaining a beard, saying that Sikh soldiers are not taken into consideration because religious housing is not taken into consideration. But the coalition said that it would harm individuals with medical housing, black men and South Asian men.“We have seen somewhere else that discriminating policies with people requiring a medical need to shave are often used to violate the rights of Sikhs, which maintain their hairstyle (unwanted hair) as an article of faith. While religious houses are now left out of this new guidance, men- especially with those who are the medical conditions like pseudopholytica barbacks. “We are committed to working with other marginal groups because we keep fighting for the complete equality of opportunity for all qualified persons in the Defense Department,” said this.