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“First, the military uniforms of the U.K. are up to the U.K.; the military uniforms of the U.S. are up to the U.S. If one expresses support for the U.K. military wearing kilts it does not follow that one is implicitly supporting kilt-wearing for the U.S. military.”

Btw,You are also entirely missing the point.

The Shikh is being given an exemption to regulation wear.

If that is okay for you to accept, then you should also be willing to accept it for the US.

IF you are willing to accept the exemption for the “good guy” Shikhs, then you must also give the exemption for others. Such as women wearing a Hajib with their Navy uniform.

This article discusses the slippery slope

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/228589/beard-too-far/elaine-donnelly#

It’s all about the slippery slope.

So many of you applaud the exemption for the Shikh. But I absolutely guarantee many of you (but maybe not all of you) will NOT feel the same way about certain others that get exemptions based on Religious reasoning.

I’m with you, I am a “zero-exemptionist”.

LOL - no need to keep beating me ! Just kidding ! LOL.

The U.S. military needs a complete restoration, since we’re sliding off the same cliff.

We’re being defeated by treason of anti-Christian, leftists and globalists.

Sikhs have served in the United States military at least as far back as the early 20th century, when one Bhagat Singh Thind, who though not a citizen joined the United States Army and served in World War I. Thind requested citizenship at the end of the war, being granted and revoked twice, before finally being naturalized in 1936. Far larger numbers of Sikhs served in World War II, and all American wars following.

The ability of observant Sikhs to serve in the American military has, since 1985, been compromised by a discontinuation of exemptions to uniform standards which previously allowed Sikhs to maintain their religiously-mandated beards and turbans while in uniform. Currently, a Sikh doctor, Kamaljeet S. Kalsi, and dentist, Tejdeep Singh Rattan, are the only Sikh officers to be permitted to serve in uniform with beard and turban. In addition, Simranpreet Lamba was permitted to enlist, with exemption to wear his turban and beard, in 2010 due to his knowledge of Punjabi and Hindi.